Word: lago
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...great tragic opera of Verdi's old age, is to pile into Scene 1 at full emotional gallop and to keep at it without nagging for three hours. Both vocally and dramatically, it is one of the most difficult works in all opera, as Verdi himself acknowledged ("This lago," he said grandly, "is humanity"). Last week, after a lapse of two years, the Metropolitan Opera tackled Otello and achieved a performance that did justice to Verdi's looming vision. It also served as a reminder that the Met is having a brilliant season, one of its greatest...
...seriously object when one of your reviewers referred in passing to that great Shakespearean tragedy, lago; when your article on "Continentalism" spoke of the noise of motor-scooters in the streets of Venice," I smiled indulgently; but when your reviewer pans For Whom the Bell Tolls in spite of the fact that he has been obviously dazzled by Gary Cooper's performance as Cary Grant, this is too much! Franklin M. Fisher...
...lago of this interlude is a cadet officer named Jocko De Paris (Ben Gazzara), a rising young sadist who has already learned that it is not enough to torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning...
Cartoonist Ronald Searle's schoolgirls are probably the most evil creatures to appear in English letters since Shakespeare's lago. Not content to be confined to the pages of Punch, the horrible little monsters have now spread like a plague all over a British motion picture. If they have lost some of their sting in the transition, the girls are still as grotesquely humorous as they every were...
...despite the camera tricks, engulfing shadows, dizzying vistas of colonnades and architectural arabesques, the film moves forward with a pulse-quickening stir and bustle. As the jealous Moor, Welles captures the falcon-look of a Kabyle from the Atlas Mountains; Michael McLiammoir plays a foul-fiend of an lago with reptilian intensity; and Suzanne Clothier as Desdemona, though not quite entrancing enough to "sing the savageness out of a bear," wins compassion as she is bewilderingly overwhelmed by her mate and fate...