Word: priestly
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...attention to one of the persistent criticisms of its selections: that they have been too male, too white and too academic. The new fellows include four women (one of them black) and seven nonacademics, among them two visual artists, a Hispanic community organizer, an ornithologist and a Roman Catholic priest...
...work: the human need to keep replaying our own life stories, no matter how hopeless the tales. In Ohio Impromptu (one of the plays at the Clurman), two gray-haired, black-robed figures sit at a table. They are called Reader and Listener, but they could be priest and communicant, doctor and patient, actor and audience. The Reader intones a mysterious narrative that is in fact the history of their relationship. When the text ends, the Listener will be left alone forever. And so, like a child before bedtime, he begs the Reader never to stop. But the story must...
Then, sometime before the witch and the priest unloosed their awful revenge on the pristine jungle things started to change. One character threw out a string of Bond Jokes; his love answered, "Roger." The Man of the Year, being human, laughed. The audience kept drinking. The Belles did their schtick, then stripped down to yellow stain bikinis and did it again...
...story itself seems designed to be incomprehensible. A convoluted mess of recurring clues, recurring thugs, and recurring murders, the plot features a murderous priest, a mystery-lady in a leopard coat, a grotesque pimp and a complete cast, shuffled and re-shuffled, of the stock characters. Throughout the film, in fact, the plot contains all the typical characteristics of film noir...
...look forward to a promising future, and they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what you are talking about...