Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael York, however, should hold our strongest interest, for his performance, while less glossy than Lansbury's, correlates both the brutality and humor of the film's concerns. As Conrad (a latter-day Hitler?), he bodes forth a concept of sex as power appropriate to a new age of barbarism. His barbarism is intellectual: he kills, he fornicates, but he also reasons...
...clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south-central L.A., boxed professionally and played in small jazz clubs for two years. He developed a heroin habit, was caught stealing a record player and thrown in jail. From then on, Sonny bounced back and forth between the state pens at Chino, Folsom and San Quentin, with only brief intervals on the street...
...choose and be done with it, to leave certain questions unanswered. Aili prods, "Keep going, Mary. Keep going until you know who you are." In the closet, the mannequin (Anne Barclay), an old woman now, with smile frozen, holds up a tattered veil. Frozen stiff with waiting. she holds forth the veil to the younger women; it is their turn to wait. And when He comes, she says, "strangle him with it." One solution...
...things-some of which work, many of which do not. Much too often he falls back on photographer Laszlo Kovacs' repertoire of American scenic vistas to punctuate scenes-a device that seems intended, for whatever reasons, to invite comparisons with Easy Rider. Occasionally, Rafelson cuts to moments back and forth in time; this invites comparisons to another, thematically similar American film, Richard Lester's Petulia -comparisons which Five Easy Pieces courts to its own detriment...
...Constitution empowers the Congress "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and repel invasions...