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...been in Caxias 21 years, but about 50 were among a group of influential leftists that had been locked up only one week before in the government's frenzied attempt to quash dissent. One ugly rumor about Caxias was confirmed when liberating soldiers discovered a torture building, mute evidence that will no doubt back up the testimony of the prisoners who visited it. "Every night we would hear the trucks rumbling past our windows, taking prisoners to the torture building," said the wife of one prison worker. "Then we would hear them come back, and we would...
...turn of a key, the gentle pressure of a foot, a twist of the steering wheel and the occasional injection of vital fluids. Those freewheeling days, alas, have passed. As a result of the nation's commendable concern with driver safety, cars are no longer the mute mistresses of yore but have become instead the harridans of the highways, yowling at passengers and refusing orders until they are properly buckled...
Ingmar Bergman's Persona is generally accounted a masterpiece of a movie, but since it evidently relies pretty thoroughly on purely cinematic techniques--it's about two women, one a famous actress who's become deaf and mute, who look very much alike--it's hard to imagine how Sarah Stearns adapted it for the stage. Evidently she has, though. Opens tonight through Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb...
...body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists and priests who come to treat her. Before the guests at her mother's dinner party she urinates...
...pond on their country property. Leaving their surviving son in school, the Baxters depart for Venice, where John is restoring a 16th century church. The movie gives a compelling sense of the city not as a romantic tourist spot, but as a cold, purgatorial place, a labyrinth full of mute threat. It is, as one character describes it, "like a city in aspic at a dinner party where all the guests are dead and gone...