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...just stand still." So much of the comedy in his role, and the sadness, arise from this stillness. Before a hunt, Stevens holds a drinking cup for a horseman; the aristocrat takes no notice of his offer, and the butler takes no notice of the slight. His stillness may mask sexual fear: when Miss Kenton amiably approaches him, he freezes like a bruised virgin. The rest of the film Hopkins carries with a small gnomic smile that means a dozen things in a dozen scenes: gratitude, impatience, self-control. "I can say it's simple now," the actor acknowledges...
...fluency of metaphor here is (you might say) a mask; but the contours of a mask like this are the best possible guide to the emotions on the face within. Merrill's skill at the self-analysis which occurs so fluidly throughout his poetry may have grown out of his sessions with Dr. Detre: or they may not have. It's all secondary to the poems themselves, or should be. I imagine future generations of readers picking up A Different Person after, and only after, the poems have enchanted them already. Those future readers will find themselves diverted, but disappointed...
Mansfield's Colorado courtroom testimony and follow-up comments in a Crimson interview do not mask their bald mean-spiritedness with respectable theory. The same is true of Wasinger's praise for Mansfield. Both Mansfield and Wasinger offer opinions of homosexuality without any justifying rationale to support those opinions. Their remarks are not arguments, for an argument would imply there was some supporting logic offered to justify...
...condemnation of heterosexual couples who--because of either choice or infertility--have no children, their "argument" deserves no discussion. Their failure to denounce childless heterosexual couples (or heterosexual couples who choose to adopt rather than to procreate) suggests that they are merely using the procreation "argument" to mask their bigotry...
...common on Broadway. But nothing makes off-Broadway more exciting than the emergence of new talent, the sense of a career being born. That hope is fulfilled to overflowing by Fichtner and Rapp, who both combine exhilarating talent with terrifying insight into how destruction can serve as a mask for self-destruction...