Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taut direction and strong acting more effectively enliven the limp script in Home Free. As a brother and sister living in incest, Bob Waldinger and Susan Ehrlich taunt and comfort each other with a vehemence that flickers between sibling rivalry and lovers' passion. The play is too long, but Waldinger, cowering and speaking with a mouth askew, and Erhrlich, alternately imperious and wistful, draw up the yarn into a ball of tension...
...surrounded the sacrament. The rite will no longer be given to persons who have died before the priest arrives, because the church now emphasizes that the recipient should have a positive faith in the sacrament's grace. Says liturgical expert Father Secondo Mazzarello: "The aim now is to comfort the sick person. Pain and sickness are seen as the problems of the entire man, body and soul together. The new rite gets away from the Platonic concept, which for centuries split man into body and soul...
Henceforth, the recipients of the anointing may even take their comfort communally. One change provides for the administering of the sacrament to "great gatherings of the faithful" during a Mass-for sick pilgrims at Lourdes, say, or patients in a hospital...
...Comfort (4) 7-All Creatures Great and Small...
ERIC ROHMER'S WORLD is a precious one. In Chloe in the Afternoon even the streets of Paris have been cleansed of the ugly, the old, the poor. It is a bourgeois landscape, regular and unperturbed, all glass, gilded comfort and leisure...