Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irene Papas, who has often played aggrieved and grieving women (Z, Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis), brings to the role a controlled intensity, an innate intelligence, and an implacably stubborn anger. To humanize the part, however, is to make it somewhat less than awesome in its sweeping horror. The paradox remains that the Greek playwrights gave us a gallery of women who bewail their powerlessness while these very same women are as flintily, dauntingly formidable as any of their sex ever seen on or off a stage...
...more dazzlingly sustained discussion of ideas in dialogue. The words sing, the ideas go off like fireworks. It is like a great parliamentary debate in which the members orate arias with the omnipresent Shaw in the Speaker's chair. Behind it all is Shaw's master paradox: that hell is the kind of heaven most people crave, with the devil as a genial host offering comfort and the best of company. But heaven is for the ardent, soldierly few, driven by divine discontent and the life force, who see man only as an unending bridge to his better...
Already, scholars and members of Johnson's Administration have begun to assess the paradox of his double role--the man who made war on poverty at home while calling for full-scale bombing in Vietnam...
...Grim Paradox. Until recently, heroin was considered the major villain. As more and more young female addicts have been enrolled in methadone maintenance programs, however, doctors have discovered a grim paradox: methadone is preferable for the adolescent or adult for a number of reasons-in eluding the fact that it does not normally produce the euphoria of heroin-but for the infant it seems to be even more dangerous than heroin...
...film is the very definition of flawless ensemble playing. Kari Sylwan, the only one of the quar tet unfamiliar from previous Bergman films, gives Anna a strange, almost mys tical sense of strength. Liv Ullmann's Maria is that rare creation, a vacuous creature of substance. This seeming paradox is one excellent measure of Berg man's talent, and Miss Ullmann...