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...Repertory in Providence, which he founded in 1964. Now, like Persephone in the Greek myth, Hall spends half the year in a sun-baked Texas financial center and the other half in a gray, run-down, working-class corner of Rhode Island, 1,520 miles away. He is no figurehead in either place. While many artistic directors limit themselves to the hands-on staging of one show a year, Hall is mounting two this season in Providence and two more in Dallas, one of which opened last week. His bawdy, confrontational work at Trinity got him fired, temporarily...
Neither the greying Bok nor the jewel-festooned British figurehead managed to explain fully how in God's universe they could condone the Rosen-Charles flip, considering that neither has any qualifications for each other...
...indistinguishably British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch. This means presentation, panache, purpose and, in their train, dignity and responsibility; awesome concepts, borne permanently in mind." Alfred: "If he translates his predicament into fiction, if he views it as a pilgrimage or a perilous enterprise or an adventure, if, in fact, he thinks of himself as Henry...
They finally settled on a dark horse: Leonid Brezhnev, then the figurehead Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the rubber-stamp parliament. They did not anticipate his further advance. Aware of his rather low intellect, they were convinced that this unprepossessing man would be unable to hold his own against them...
Sandrine Bonnaire has a peasant sensuality; naked, she looks like the figurehead on a pirate ship. The camera closes in on the stolid planes of her face, and voilà a deep dimple appears incongruously in her left cheek. From wanton to elfin in the flick of an adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy...