Word: malevolentisms
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The Homecoming's plot is familiar by now: a college professor in America (Michael Jayston) brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to London to meet his family: a malevolent patriarch (Paul Rogers), a fey uncle (Cyril Cusack) and the patriarch's two unmarried sons-an aspiring boxer (Terence...
These trends combined to push up U.S. farm exports an amazing 60%, to $13 billion, in 1972-73 alone. Export demand is still rising, but nothing short of a series of malevolent miracles could prolong that pace. Already, some tendencies are at work to take the frenzy out of demand...
These are promising enough settings for comedy, but Tati never develops any dramatic tension within them, partly because he seems to have no firm attitude toward them. Modernism was an actively malevolent force in Chaplin's Modern Times; Tati sees it as nothing more than a minor nuisance. His...
The courts never supported Popkin's appeal, which was firmly grounded on First Amendment rights. Like so many others who have been felled this year by the government's malevolent attitude toward those rights, Popkin was subject to the whim of the government and its agents. He was jailed on...
An Australian who lives in London, Christina Stead is known in the U.S. chiefly for another doorstop novel called The Man Who Loved Children. Both books were originally published shortly before World War II and forgotten for 30 years. They are more alike than may at first appear. The Man...