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...usual, Bergman includes references to his own previous works--e.g., Maria and her husband plan to visit the Egermans, the eminently bourgeois family of Passion of Anna. Also to be expected are the wonderful Sven Nykvist photography, the clever color design (red for lust and guilt, white for innocence, black for death) and the impeccable performances. But Bergman's characteristic flaws are present as well. Occasionally, a scene becomes annoyingly stylized: Karin looks at that piece of glass for what seems like a full five minutes, and the talk in which she and Maria finally commit themselves is smothered...
...already done away with the Engineers once this year, and although there isn't really much chance of success for MIT, the Engineers will be "up" for the Crimson. The memory of an embarrassing 22-5 shellacking by Harvard in December, will do little to curb the MIT lust for more punishment...
...movie traipses through Streisand's housewifely fantasies, which range from an anthropological African safari to an interview with Castro, who turns out, in a particularly infelicitous touch, to be a lust-maddened transvestite. Eventually Streisand is subjected to a sort of snit that passes for a nervous breakdown. She packs kids and husband (David Selby) out of the apartment and takes stock, concluding that what she really needs is this one afternoon away from the family, then a great many more children...
...figures that populate his books are, instead, fantasmo embodiments of various sorts of foaming mania. Among the twitches ambulant in Arigato are compulsive gambling, saxophone playing, war games, gold lust, French cookery, banking, power-elitism and think-tankery. Fine, thinks the reader, that sounds lively...
...agitated Miss Decter's early women readers more than this extraordinary pronouncement. One of the printable responses: "Few feminists are opting for chastity or lesbianism or the foreclosure of the vagina." Miss Decter's counterrebuttal: the sexual revolution has assigned to women "the obligations of an impersonal lust they did not feel but only believed in"-constituting, in other words, just one more unwanted freedom...