Word: pascale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Turin has long been an important topic of discussion in Italy [RELIGION, April 20]. The carbon 14 dating analysis has not solved the question of its age, at least for those who will never cease to believe in the shroud's authenticity. In one of his Provincial Letters, Pascal wrote, "God does not manifest himself to men with all the evidence which he could show." Pascal also stated, "For it is not true that all reveals God and it is not true that all conceals God. But it is at the same time true that he hides himself from those...
...rich are different; they kill with epigrams. In the Pascal mansion just before Thanksgiving dinner, Mother (Genevieve Bujold) says, "I'm going to go baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives." When daughter Jackie-O (Parker Posey) is asked what a gun is doing in the house, she shrugs: "Just being gunlike. Gun-esque. Gun-onic...
...actually surprisingly good as the sugar-coated, giggly fiancee who realizes early on the disturbing secrets held within the stately walls of their home--the House of Yes, as quickly becomes apparent. Genevieve Bujold, a popular Canadian movie star, plays the eccentric, witty and coldly sinister family matriarch, Mrs. Pascal. Many of the family's tragedies can be blamed on this woman who manages to avoid all fault by merely saying that "one raises cattle, children just are and you let the be." Rounding out the cast is Freddie Prinze, Jr., who plays Anthony, Jackie O. and Marty's awkward...
...character to question the family's complete submission to and indulgence of Jackie O. With the exact nature of Jackie's illness left very vague, the viewer suffers from a devilish, but painful, ambivalence over whether her mental state followed the incest or was present all along. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pascal and the rest of the family accept the incest as a natural occurrence in this very unconventional family...
...crown it all, ten minutes after the audience learns of the incest, it is revealed that Mr. Pascal disappeared inexplicably on November 22, 1963--at precisely the same second that Kennedy was shot. Did the Pascal family carry their Kennedy obsession too far and kill him? Or is it just one of the many coincidences that abound in the House of Yes? We never quite find out, but we never stop guessing...