Word: forsaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureaucratic argot, to his willingness to compromise on ideals, Fisher is somewhat anomalous in the academic community, but he is well respected. In a self-portrait published in the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report of the Class of 1947, Fisher compared his position in public service to that of the forsaken man in the sinking boat who pumps furiously despite obvious gains by the ocean. The academics, Fisher explains now, his voice assuming a mock gravity, "are studying the situation, doing a psychoanalysis of what a funny attitude this Fisher's got." By no means irreverent, Fisher concedes. "The more time...
Throughout, Apted and Connolly rather dryly observe MacLaine as he slips into druggy melancholy, paranoia and self-pity, grooming himself for martyr dom. Then, abruptly, irony is forsaken, and he becomes a full-fledged martyr, dying flamboyantly on-camera, done in by the same forces that created him. It is a facile, melodramatic conclusion that does nothing to complement all the good that has gone before...
...weak heart from working in the coal mines of Northern England. Mrs. Shaw (Constance Chapman), doted on and fussed over, defers to her husband but remains an enigmatic center of her troubled household. The three sons are creatures of compromise and uncertainty. Andrew, the eldest (Alan Bates), has forsaken a legal career to paint geometric canvases. His flattery and good will always carry an edge of irony that barely conceals a fearful rage. Out of the urgencies of inner demons, he proposes a familial "vengeance," in which he wants to enlist the brothers. Colin (James Bolam) is a glib expert...
...cast are the studious camp follower Roman Polanski (playing a peasant) and the late Vittorio De Sica, who, even acting and primping as broadly as he does, lends the proceedings a few fleeting moments of dignity. Morrissey has little time for dignity, how ever. He has, for the moment, forsaken his customary languor; it is this rejuvenated spirit - perhaps a result of all the blood - that gives Andy Warhol's Dracula its few silly, phantom pleasures...
...Without Clothes is a good way to be, especially during these God-forsaken Cambridge summers, and it's also the name of a very fine exhibition of contemporary photos at MIT's Hayden Gallery...