Word: dionysian
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...empty profundity of the script is appropriately paralleled by the craft of the director. When Siddhartha is going through his dionysian period, we are treated to a wealth of prison images--birdcages, open temples with arabesque walls, etc. Doors are continually opening on the screen for no apparent reason other than to show us that transition is going on in Siddhartha's spiritual development. The director gives us a succession of gratuitous images which are supposed to be pregnant with meaning, but what we see is only a collection of boring objects...
...Habits get you through life, not into it," Merriwether cries, and the male-menopausal debate-life-as-reason-and-light v. life-as-Dionysian-flame-is on. No novelist could improve upon Richard (Golk) Stern's inventory of what Merriwether has to lose. The Stern Cambridge is full of 90-year-old gabled and bay-window-bellied houses, just a gentlemanly stroll from the Square's latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry...
Grandfather DeWhit, a Dionysian Scattergood Baines, is not only the commu nity's pillar but its lingam as well. Hints of his sexual reconnaissance on both sides of the color line are rampant...
...dance form. In the first four sections of the work, Robbins uses the waltz almost as a leitmotiv. In the midst of a complex variation, for instance, the corps will suddenly pace off a basic waltz step. At the finale, the stage is filled with swirling bodies, suggesting the Dionysian impulses of a dance once considered impolitely erotic...
Imagine life as a sneaker-shod Dionysian ballet, reeling from the Marx Brothers to Samuel Beckett, from Madison Avenue to the groves of academe, from the incontinence of diaper days to the impotence of a palsied hand of poker in an old folks' death house. That will give you some brief notion of Dr. Hero. Yes, the central figure is our old friend and sometime bore, Everyman; but dismiss your initial, legitimate worries. This Everyman is no gullible Candide looking for the best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest...