Word: kowalski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confrontation of why she has arrived on his and Stella's doorstep, Blanche begins to lose the facade of reality she carried as the last reminder of her former life, She has lost the family's country plantation, Belle Reve (translated as "beautiful dream"). And Blanche, confronted by Stanley Kowalski's brash manner and disrespect, loses the last hold on her own "beautiful dream" of maintaining her life as a lady...
Blanche aptly describes Stanley to Stella by saying, "If you'll forgive me, he's common...He's an animal with an animal's habits..thousands of years have passed him by there he is, Stanley Kowalski." With angry rages where he breaks all the light-bulbs with Stella's wedding shoe (a rampage which Stella erotically described as "thrilling"), his finger-licking table manners and process of clearing the table by smashing the dishes against the wall (then delivering the famous, "do you need help cleaning yours?" line), Kowalski proves himself to be the insensitive, oversexed image of what...
...score broader gains. Paula Voos, who teaches industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, cites recent polls showing that up to 40% of nonunion workers say union representation would improve their lot. "It's not a majority, certainly, but it still represents millions of workers," Voos says. Dawn Kowalski, a machine operator at a Pilot Industries auto-parts plant in Dexter, Michigan, is one of them. Hoping to win higher wages and better conditions, she plans to vote to join the United Auto Workers at an in-plant election this week. Like many other parts suppliers, Pilot has never...
...important restoration is of a great film to contemporary consciousness. Indeed, comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister and his wife Stella (Kim Hunter), Williams personified what was for him the essential conflict of modern life. The newfound footage adds a touch of $ evil to Brando's work, makes Blanche a bit more vulnerable and stresses the genteel Stella's sexual thralldom...
Other skits include two versions of Stanley Kowalski's rape of Stella DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, using different tones and body gestures. Conceivably, some might think one interpretation is rape and one is not. Raz said, "The scene is an interesting bend on what heroes are all about, on how society heroicizes...