Word: priestly
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...wife, is working in a gray make up that makes her look plagued even before the dis ease breaks out. Or why poor Martin Sheen, cast as Ava Gardner's creepy gigolo, undergoes such unmotivated regeneration in crisis. And why OJ. Simpson is required to run around in a priest's collar and talk in an imbecilic simper. Doubtless the hero sympathizes with Lee Strasberg, who appears to be so affronted by his dialogue that he whispers all of it in virtually inaudible silence, and wishes to bestow on the other players the gift of still deeper silence...
...shit"), truck drivers, boxcar bums and rod riders, and, of course, fellow Dust Bowl refugees. Both Woody and the viewer are seeing the hidden, dark side of the American dream--the poverty and misery of the unemployed masses contrasts starkly with the affluence of the epicureans and of the priest who refuses him charity on the ground it will weaken Woody's spirit...
...will of the people," is desperate to have Antigona confess. He realizes that if she does not relent, he is bound to execute her and, by doing so, is bound to create a martyr, a rallying point for the forces that might topple him. Creon sends Antigona's mother, priest and friend to her prison cell. They pressure her to act more ladylike, to resume her privileged position ("We were prosperous, respectable," her mother says) and to confess--if only for the sake of her life. Yet Antigona persists. Although at its periphery often excessive and out of control...
...contrast, Kevin Grumbach's performance as Monsignor Escudero has many more dimensions, but it is confusing. He is the typical Catholic priest making gentle jests over his supposed sinfulness, the suspicious courtier "educated in the most select European intrigues" and the imperious confessor; but he does not seem...
...question is valid and not terribly important to the novel. For the purposes of his argument, Percy harries Lancelot into an extreme position. Taking both his hero's part and that of the silent but attentive priest, the author stages a debate in which the middle ground has been blasted away. "I cannot tolerate this age," Lancelot raves in his cell. "What is more, I won't. That was my discovery: that I didn't have...