Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Persona, 4, 7:20, 10:30, The Passion of Anna, 5:30, 8:45, through Saturday; Scenes From a Marriage...
...house went and then the unparalleled private museum of Americana. "The dismantling of the museum," Nadelman wrote to a friend in 1937, with his usual reticent dignity, "did also dismantle something in me." The market for his own sculpture slowly caved in. By 1946 the very word elegance-the passion of Nadelman's life and the quality of his sculptures-had become suspect. "Elegance" had nothing to do with social utility, or Freudian disclosures, those ruling interests of a postwar American avantgarde. So the oubliette yawned and swallowed...
...Passion. Charles has made the mistake of committing a crime in a milieu where nothing much matters. He himself remains largely dead to the world, so that when he strangles his mistress (Anna Douking) during a bizarre sex game it is difficult initially to determine whether the killing was an accident or an unaccustomed act of passion. He is rather gloomy afterward, as his best friend François (François Perier) duly notes. But Charles barely manages a look of concern when François hears that his wife has met with an "accident." It is Fran...
...Attempts to delineate a sort of arctic moral climate, to deal with shallow people and the deadness of lives, frequently end up either being superficial themselves or strangling on their own rage. Chabrol's particular achievement here is his ability to keep his distance and still preserve his passion...
...worship at the place of your choice, which in this case was every Lutheran Church within 100 miles. No temples. Also, shelves packed tight with ancient copies of Reader's Digest, and a calender or two sponsored by the very same publication. Best of all was that rural passion for personal signs--dozens of them, informing people not to throw cigarettes down the toilets (ashtray provided), not to run the water too long, quiet hours 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., bingo, if you're interested, at a location in downtown Rhinelander. All very polite and designed to be helpful, please...