Word: everymanic
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...aura of Mannian decadence that pervades the luxurious hotel suite--a reference to the hotel scenes in Death in Venice?--is brought forth with such powerful and unsparing force precisely because Israel peoples his film with everyman figures--the sex-starved ticket agent, the sex-starved auto mechanic the sex-starved doctor and his equally emaciated wife--and sets the action in America's backyard...
Feelings cannot be captured in a box score, intuition cannot be put in a data bank, whim cannot be predicted. The decision-making process is everyman's secret ritual, forever hidden from cameras, tape recorders and pollsters' printouts. Indeed, it is often obscure even to the decision maker himself...
...candidate preference. Theirs is an open vote, easy prey for zealous organizers and subject to a wide range of human pressures and enticements right on the spot. The secret ballot, which is the very heart of our democratic procedure, was designed to prevent such distortions. The polling booth is everyman's temple, unassailable by blandishments from the outside world if the person so chooses. In there voters can be giant killers. In New Hampshire they were...
...father Everett (Hume Cronyn) opitomizes Organized Religion, and since Sam is a modern Everyman, God the Father and God Sam's father inevitably get mixed up. Fortunately, Cronyn doesn't pay much attention to the heavy-handed symbolism and manages to create the play's only believable character. He ends the first act with an oddly powerful prayer and unfortunately gets bogged down when he has to repeat the trick at the end of the play...
...ferret named Eddie, ever ready to scoot away on his motorcycle or to celebrate an occasion with his special display of fireworks. As for the pyrotechnics of his craft, he was meticulous in creating them, blending an exhaustive reading of the script with acute observation of Everyman in the street. It was this creature whom Richardson embodied and alchemized into art. In finding something extraordinary in the ordinary man, in revealing his dreams and despair, Sir Ralph proved himself the most fearlessly modern actor of his great generation. Nature had the right idea after...