Word: incest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...partly because he is too stupid, partly because he is too weak to face the truth. If he faced it, he would have to give up his unnatural attachment to the girl, and this he cannot bear to do. Like Oedipus, he commits (in attitude if not in act) incest through ignorance, and the penalty for incest, as all myths agree, is dissolution of the personality-sometimes in madness, sometimes in death...
...Williams often writes like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious pageant of depravity in which fantasies of incest, cannibalism, murder, rape, sodomy and drug addiction constitute the canon of reality. Yet Broadway's bad boy has his sweet-mouthed moments, and Summer and Smoke (1948) is one of them: one of the few plays Williams obviously wrote primarily to please himself, one of the few in which...
Thus, what might otherwise have been a lightheaded comedy of manners has undertones of incest and overtones of Andy Hardy. Still, the Bay Area scenery is silken, the sets and costumes effulgent; and at long last, a Hollywood production designer has learned something about the true-life tastes of the tasteful rich. Everybody is beautiful, worldly and fairly damned-everybody, that is, except Actress Reynolds, who, after ten years in pictures and a highly publicized scandal-divorce, is still playing the head pompom girl of Beverly Hills High...
...Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica and sexual aberrations explored by today's film makers: fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution, pimping, nymphomania, voyeurism, frigidity, rape, homosexuality, cannibalism and necrophilia...
Conceivably, over this orgy of miscegenation, incest, torture and carnage can be draped some kind of indictment or protest. But in invading the Alabama of Mandingo, the Kirkland who portrayed the Georgia of Tobacco Road seems, steadily and shamelessly, to purvey sensationalism. The result may not be boring, but it is everywhere bad and, in more than one place, backfiringly ludicrous...