Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Love is not an easy game to play, particularly when the jousters cannot decide whether they seek passion or dispassion, rapturous attachment or jaded detachment. In the megalomaniacal gambitry of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a glittering epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos set on the eve of revolution in 18th century France, the only thing more dangerous than a seducer's assailing a person of virtue is the seducer's somehow falling in love: the conflict between the rakehell's manipulative pride and his newly vulnerable passion ignites everything in its path, leaving him and his partners burned-out husks, dead...
...nest humor. There is, for example, the irony of a successful junk sculptor sourly contemplating the marginal occupations of his offspring: a daughter who molds clay "pinch pots" in California; another who edits a genealogy journal in Cincinnati and is writing a "highly ambitious feminist novel called Ever Since Eve." One son makes mobiles, "unrequested by the world," while his brother tries to crack the Manhattan film world of "lost young souls stoned on media, pounding the sidewalks and virtually (who knows? -- maybe actually) selling their bodies for the whisper of a promise of becoming an assistant grip's assistant...
...basketball season was horrendous," McBride continues. "I didn't go home for Thanksgiving. I didn't go home for Christmas until Christmas Eve, but I really wanted to play. By the end of the season I'd developed stress fractures...
...Lady Eve--Brattle Theatre...
...Lady Eve (Brattle Theatre) features Henry Fonda as a bumbling millionaire and Barbara Stanwyck as the crafty cardshark who tries to take him for all he's got--but ends up falling in love. The film, made in 1941, came at the end of Hollywood's Golden Era of Romantic Comedy--but goes to show that the decline was not without its achievements...