Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wound that will not heal; the wound, which is supposed to be in Amfortas' side, is a disembodied thing that lies ulcerating on a bed next to the suffering knight. Most startling of all is the changing of Parsifal from a man (Michael Kutter) into a woman (Karen Krick) at the moment he rejects the erotic advances of the temptress Kundry (Edith Clever). This apparently signifies Parsifal's transformation from a callow youth to a hero, as Krick's grim, Joan of Arc visage emphasizes. Yet the device, like so many others in the film, is arbitrary...
...SMALL CAST WORKS as an ensemble--no one character stands apart from the rest in the quality of her performance. The three major roles are played by Sandy Dennis as Mona, Cher as Cissy, and Karen Black as Joann. These women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...Karen Black as Joann tackles her role with a delicacy and finesse that enable her to come across as totally believable despite the initial implausibility of her character. Her gaudy, dyed red hair and her overpowering femininity enhance the sexual ambiguities surrounding her character--the only one of the characters to have changed during the past 20 years. Although she doesn't come into the movie until the plot has been underway for quite some time, Black's Joann breaks the trance-like spell that pervades the reunion; she forces cruel reality to enter into the plot as her character...
After that experience, she says, she learned that a diplomatic correspondent cannot take official statements at face value and cannot be satisfied with remaining one step behind the heads of state. By reading officials' minds instead of accepting their statements, Karen Elliott House scooped the world and became the first journalist to report then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's invitation to Begin and Sadat to come to the United States for peace talks. The talks later became known as the Camp David Summit...
...says that more than anything at Harvard, she enjoyed meeting undergraduates. Her study group, which explored foreign policy decision making, brought former Administration officials and business leaders (including the president of Mobil Oil) before a group of about forty students, half of whom were undergraduates. In addition, Karen Elliott House lived, appropriately enough, in Elliott House. "This is the first time to my knowledge that an IOP fellow has had the opportunity to stay in an undergraduate House. But with my name, they had no choice about where to put me." From her contact with undergraduates, House says she sees...