Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word or two about Albert Finney's curious performance. In trying to flesh out Christie's classic caricature, he has slicked down his hair, altered his voice to a sort of petulant croak and overacted stylishly, if not always enjoyably. Ironically, what works best for him are his eyes. They escape the whim of makeup and never play him false. Finney fills them with irony and cunning in a struggle against all the shabby artifice that surrounds his face and smothers this hapless film...
What sort of Flesh and Blood I pleas'd to wear...
Bumpers' campaign style is awesome, even in the tall-tale-loving, flesh-pressing South. He did not just shake a voter's hand and pass on. He found out the man's name, rolled it over his tongue a few times, inquired about his relatives and, more often than not, produced a better-than-average anecdote about a mutual acquaintance. He was careful to stick to his political ground rules: never attack an opponent, never start an argument, never take a stand on an issue when it can be avoided...
...Shocks. The beatings went on for about half an hour. Then water was poured on the floor around me, a wire was fastened to the second toe of my right foot, and a spring-clip electrode to the nipple of my right breast, pinching so hard it cut the flesh. Trying to make me confess that I was a Communist, they resumed the questioning. Now my denials were met with shocks as well as fists. The voltage was successively increased, becoming so painful that I doubled over until I fell to the floor...
...easy and obvious charge to bring against Mert and Phil is bad taste, but it, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. More than likely, the play and Joseph Papp are being lambasted for presenting subjects that audiences deeply dread facing: the corruption of the flesh, the death of love, and growing old in bleak utter loneliness. There may be too little craft in Mert and Phil, but there is undeniable courage...