Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champion rodeo rider now reduced morally, if not economically, by having to hustle Ranch Breakfast, a conglomerate's cereal. He is frequently obliged to ride out into darkened stadiums wearing a suitful of colored lights while carrying a snootful of whisky in order to dull the pain of exploitation...
...first play by Kentuckian Marsha Norman but it is worth a trip to the Theater de Lys on Christopher St. to see how she has combined these lives into one soul. Dale Soules plays Arlene, a wiry woman locking out her past, anxious to deal with the daily pain of life in the real world without resorting to crime, without ugly language, without her old self--Arlie. Simultaneously, Julie Nesbitt carries on as Arlie, Arlene's violent past personified in this small but gutsy, foul-mouthed girl who hates authority and only loves for cash. In the battle between Arlene...
...last of the menagerie's precious trio is the glass animal herself, the crippled--"not crippled, you have a defect," says Amanda--Laura. Laura evokes only sympathy, smothered in abuse and pain, hopelessly shy, wandering alone in her own world of phonograph music, long winter walks and dear glass creatures. Williams is at pain to show that she most resembles her favorite glass friend, a tiny unicorn--"aren't they extinct in the modern world?" who is "crippled" by his horn but loses it in an accident, suddenly, like all the other glass horses, less freakish...
Jossif Sack, one of six volunteer Israeli doctors at Sakaew, told Clark: "We can't figure it out. When I am treating a patient here and causing pain, everyone starts to laugh. Is there something in their personality that makes them laugh when they see people dying or in pain...
Director-Writer Robert Benton and his cast have made their own Scenes from a Marriage-a domestic drama that starts at a wrenching pitch and builds and builds to the threshold of pain. Yet the film is not imitation Bergman; it is, above all, peculiarly American. Adapting a popular novel by Avery Corman, Benton tells an unpretentious story that might well have served such vintage Hollywood tearjerkers as George Stevens' Penny Serenade and King Vidor's Stella Dallas...