Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JEAN BYTHELL KALEBA Pacific Beach, Wash...
...phenomenon is almost too basic to be faced; responses to it have ranged from Rousseau'sinsistence that evil is illusory to Jean Genet's perverse, delighted acceptance of it as life's only real value. For the atheist, evil is the ultimate testimony to the meaningless absurdity of life. If God's will implies th torture of an innocent child, insists Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov, "I most respectfully return him the ticket...
...rights to Myra. Trouble was, Fox was at a loss to cast the transsexual title role. Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury and Anne Bancroft were considered. Fox even tested eight real transvestites, but decided that an uncloseted queen just wouldn't do. Then Producer Robert Fryer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) had an inspiration. "If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman in the world. He would become Raquel Welch...
Many of the episodes-and actors -are charged with a peculiar magic that dilates space and annihilates time. Centuries collide; the imagined becomes surreal, as when Jean daydreams of the Pope's assassination-and the shot is clearly heard by a passerby. Or when a nun's self-sacrifice becomes actual crucifixion. But where he should use a No. 3 paintbrush, Buñuel too often employs a palette knife. What is intended as subtle Human Comedy becomes broadly laughable, as when Jesus and his disciples run through the woods in chromo-colored sequences, or when Mary miraculously...
Voltaire was most nearly heroic in his stand against the church. In 1762, he fought to exonerate the name of a Protestant shopkeeper named Jean Galas, who had been tortured and killed on the false charge of murdering his son to prevent the boy's conversion to Catholicism. But Voltaire's pattern in criticizing both church and court was to attack and then back off. Though he is generally credited with being the intellectual architect of the French Revolution, he was not inclined to be a martyr...