Word: cuckolded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animosity toward women. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha pours molten lava of abuse and contempt over her professor-husband George, both privately and publicly. Though he does the same to her, she has clearly emasculated him even before the action begins. Then she tries to cuckold him in their own house with his younger colleague, but in her arms the colleague, too, proves impotent. "I am the Earth Mother," she brays. "You're all flops...
...mustard even then, and finally returns to simpering solitude when Mussolini falls. The film examines the paths decadence travels in a decrepit society: note that the liberal professor whom Trintignant reveres fled Italy when his student most needed him, and--with the comic tone of a benign cuckold--tolerates wife Sanda's lesbianism. Bertollucci expresses his characters' anxieties and pleasures without the heavy hand of The Damned's Luchino Visconti: depraved emotions are not slobbered over...
...Richard Curnock), who happens to be an old friend. Shock and chagrin are three-quarters of the emotions in a Feydeau farce. Lucienne soon meets Mme. Pontagnac (Tudi Wiggins), and the two make a compact that if either woman is betrayed by her husband, she will make him a cuckold in revenge...
Arnolphe, fearing those legendary horns of the cuckold, has raised his ward, a lovely, blushing maiden, to be ignorant and totally naive: in other words, to be the perfect male for him. It is the witty, worldly-wise woman, he reasons, who charms the gallant and places the horns on her husband's head. The play details the inevitable failure of Arnolphe's plan. The girl, Agnes, falls in love with a simple-minded gallant, Horace, and she suddenly develops a measure of ingenious cunning which delivers her (with the help of a few suitable ridiculous coincidences...
...large cast sparkles in many of the smaller parts as well. Kenneth Demsky is particularly comic as Sir Jasper Fidget, who delights in mocking Horner, little suspecting that the supposed eunuch is making a fool and a cuckold...