Word: lovelessness
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...carved out in granite on the portals of that building which still bears his name yet stands in hypocritical defiance of most decent values that he represented? When, for that matter, will the Harvard-Radcliffe students have the will or courage to demand that buildings named for arrogant and loveless members of the ruling-class--Loeb, Lowell and Lamont--be named instead for those, such as that great and gentle Harvard drop-out named Pete Seeger, who had the brains to quit before his heart was dead and soul was cold? When, too, will we see buildings named for brave...
...offer an excuse for sex. The whole purpose of the film is to titillate, and everything is distorted and stylized with that goal in mind. The dialogue, the action, the settings--bedrooms, forests, deserts, in short anyplace a secluded camera can be set up--all lead to the inevitable loveless consummation. The camera is incessantly at low-angles to catch the flash of panties or the roundness of a buttock. One soon learns to expect gratuitous shower scenes and absurd double-entendre conversations. The best films are usually unpredictable, but when all roads lead to the bedroom one need...
...raises. Is Perew merely a heel trying to avoid emotional remorse? Is he, perhaps, more in love with Julia than he lets on, enough to want to soften the blow of his departure? Is it possible that he wants to bring a little fleshly warmth into Lacey's loveless and lonely life? Finally, as we see the ashen, tearless desolation on Lacey's face after Perew leaves, must we not wonder if they are two latent homosexuals...
...audience's reception could hardly be called anything more than polite. The score is one of those seemingly loveless works that, like virtually the entire catalogue of John Cage, may eventually turn out to be more important as philosophical statement than as musical expression. The odds are good, for example, that it will never be any more popular than Arnold Schoenberg's atonal manifesto of 1912, Pierrot Lunaire; yet it could well rival its historical importance...
Ellen McLain's Patience the native, young loveless girl who finds true love and happiness etc., etc., is properly native and young. She steals the show more than once with her singing, her stage presence and her low musical pun in the first act Nancy Urqhart Traverse as Jane, the lovelorn lass who is by her own admission, "massive," gives a superior performance, especially in her elephantine pas de deux in the second act with Bunthorne...