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...this film, a love square. The Guardian (the convent's general overseer), Baltar, falls in love with Helene and tries to set up the professor with the librarian, Piedade, in order to win Helene's affections for himself. Piedade, meanwhile, is a beautiful, porcelain-like young woman, of the purest mind and flesh; she often quotes passages of Faust in the original German and she loves Baltar with a fervent--and slightly incestuous--daughterly respect. Helene pretends to desire Baltar, but she'd rather get a little attention from her husband, who values his research more than anything, except, perhaps...
...profession that calls for lots of imagination), "I can't imagine any future for this space, except as the pathetic, hollow stage of a forgotten era." This is, of course, the official Harvard line--and, on both the example of Harvard Hall and the promptings of common sense, the purest nonsense...
This largely abstract culture war that is being waged in Israel seems a million miles away from the cold-blooded assassination of this November. Yigal Amir, after all, murdered Yitzhak Rabin for the purest of political motives...
...worker ant, he does manage to capture the leaping grasshopper's heart of his subject. He brings to life the young man whose journals are a thicket of exclamation points and who wrote in praise of the "excessive romanticism which is youth and which is the best and purest part of life...
...could any fan, "pure" or not, suggest that these games were anything but baseball at its purest...