Word: lovingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worst of all, the show seems to be dating badly. Maybe the idea of rewriting Romeo and Juliet as a plea for ethnic tolerance seemed more startling in the '50s than it does now. Maybe putting a gang of Puerto Ricans and a gang of non-Puerto Ricans on the...
THERE ARE FOUR erotic scenes in The Last Tango in Paris which are so much more honest than the rest of the film that they should be excised, and exhibited by themselves as masterful short subjects. When Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider screw standing up, or shove each other up...
But Brando cannot connect the different sides of him which his director has simply caught, not structured. Bertolucci is too busy using facile Freudianisms to account for Paul's aggression and Jeanne's passivity, or emphasizing yet another in a long chain of random perversities (like Mother's loves for...
God, for the moment, took the back seat, in a slightly moribund state. Some theologians, borrowing a leaf from Nietzsche, said that God was dead. What most of them meant, of course, was that certain concepts of God could no longer work for modern man: the personal, loving father-figure...
To McMurtry, Deck is a questioning innocent, emerging from a stultifying Texas atmosphere (which at the same time he can't help loving), while also trying to find his personal identity. It's the classic American unsatisfying-success story. You finally escape from the conglomerate of emotional inputs you call...