Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Physically, the differences are marked. John F. was taller than Robert F., squarer of jaw and shoulder, fuller of face and chest, less prominent in teeth and nose. But when Bobby Kennedy rises to full passion on the podium, his brother's spirit and image fill the hall...
...truth to tell, is cheerless in Evergreen. Women are not so much to be loved as abused, and the varieties are impressive. One writer, E. F. Cherrytree, candidly reveals his special hangup: a passion to see women fighting each other, the bloodier the better. "It's my biggest sex pleasure and has been since I was four. I'm 35 now." Evergreen illustrated this treatise with a few pages of sketches of two shapely girls, one blonde, one mauve, going at it tooth and claw. The piece evoked considerable response, says Rosset, all of it favorable. "We really...
...playwrights inside Paddy Chayefsky - one is a pixy and the other a preacher. When the pixy handles the pen, it can turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like Marty. When the moral preceptor is in command, the result is likely to be a chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher of a title is only...
...ironic to note the passion with which Massachusetts authorities have prevented the film from being seen and the fervor of their prosecution of the producer and director for "violating the rights of patients" and for "breach of contract." This apparent concern for the "rights" of patients seems hardly compatible with the stark reality of Bridgewater State Hospital...
Seasons is fundamentally static, and it seems to move more from conclusion to conclusion than from scene to scene. Wesker is good at suggesting how a couple in love becomes the most exclusive club in the world. He registers the fierce chemistry of passion by which the Other Woman swiftly becomes the Only Woman. Where Wesker is strongest he is also weakest, since the language of love is finite and, in his prosaic words, even banal...