Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. An Oxford classics don, Novelist Brophy is best known for her savage book reviews in English periodicals. In these two new lightly plotted and wickedly brilliant novellas about a New Year's Eve amorous adventure, and the about-face of a Lesbian schoolmistress, she shows the elegant artifices and tricks of style of a latter-day Ronald Firbank...
...SILENCE. A tortured lesbian (Ingrid Thulin) and her nymphomaniac sister (Gunnel Lindblom) dominate Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama-though a child and an old man furnish scraps of evidence that the human condition may not be hopeless...
...great Lotte Lenya has lowered herself to appear as Rosa Klebb, the lesbian SPECTRE spymaster who starts the diabolical plan against Bond in motion. She's come a long way from Dreigroschenoper but still manages an effective performance. That Pedro Armendariz seems better as a Mexican revolutionary (his traditional role) than as Bond's Turkish sidekick is largely due to his limited versatility as an actor. Red Granitski, the homicidal fiend of the novel, has been tamed down to a cold war equivalent of a Murder, Inc., thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected...
...SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and a child...
...SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and an innocent child...