Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly Goetz's quirky, guileless behavior fits the requirements of the myth better than Actor Charles Bronson's righteous and mean-spirited avenger in the film Death Wish. (Said Bronson last week: "I was raised to believe that if you have snakes in your backyard, you have to stomp on them.") Goetz talked to New York City police for three hours without a lawyer, providing most of the evidence that may be used against him. So far he has avoided any sense of triumph or self-justification, and his few public statements contain little that anyone can disagree with...
ELAINE Bauer gives the role of Giselle a touching vulnerability and modesty. She is childishly attracted to her lordly, ardent lover--alternately fearfully pulling out of his embrace or melting gently into a kiss. The poignant intensity of her performance comes from just this guileless quality. Bauer is not afraid to display Giselle's uncertainty, her human side. This heightens the sense of the tragedy of her death...
...telling as it does the simple tale of a plucky Texas widow attempting to save her farm from foreclosure and her family from being broken up should the old homestead go. Indeed, Edna Spalding, as luminously portrayed by Sally Field, is as good as she is brave: churchly, compassionate, guileless. Her sense of social responsibility is informed by unimpeachable instinct, not by suspect ideology...
THROUGHOUT the complex plot twists and painful soul-searching, Careful really belongs to PS. Gledhill appears not to have needed a word of direction Entirely guileless, he effectively underplays his bright and confused young character, whose emotions are subtle but very real...
...Helene-Patricia makes the switch from rags to riches, settling down among people and sweeping scenery of enormous charm, we find it hard to believe she will be able to pull it oft. She is, it seems, simply too vulnerable, sweet, and above all, guileless, to survive under the circumstances...