Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only did she not cut her repertory during her years away from the U.S., she has added a new role: the Dyer's Wife in Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten ("At last, a simple human being with every day problems, after always being a god dess or running around with somebody's cut-off head"). She will sing it for the first time in the U.S. next fall, with the San Francisco Opera. After that? Her one concession to the advancing years is that she is reluctant to make commitments very far ahead. "When managers...
...your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful...
...youthful are excluded from Old Love, it is because the au thor knows that through his wrinkled courtiers and faded coquettes he can show the entire range of human suffering and enlightenment, from birth to the grave - and, sometimes, beyond. If the tales sometimes seem melodramatic, too filled with coincidence or emotional trauma, well, so is the world they reflect. To Isaac Bashevis Singer, that arena is yet another story, a narrative he calls "God's novel." Its plot, he says, may be "inconsistent, sensational, antisocial, cryptic, decadent, vulgar." But, he admits, it "has suspense. One keeps reading...
...masturbates solemnly at home and later makes inexperienced love to a prized "bird" (Leslie Ash), the film persuasively demonstrates that even the revolutions of the '60s did not overturn the crucial rituals of postadolescence. In those moments, Quadrophenia offers not only historical drama but also the kind of human drama that is timeless. -Frank Rich
Alas, it is merely Rocky in Nikes, yet another in the proliferating genre of sports films in which it matters not so much whether the hero wins or loses, but whether or not the audience can witness a satisfying Triumph of the Human Spirit...