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...Soviet life was just coming into its own, and I felt its fresh winds when I had joined the Young Communist League. That was back in 1926. We studied and held down our jobs at the same time. We were underfed and poorly clothed, but the dream of a radiant future for all fascinated us and made us feel happy...
Juvenal's nails dug into the hard flesh of Higinio's penis, and with a how! Higinio lashed back at turn. The shaft of his now lifeless member lay bloody....His banal blond angel face with its tight puckered mount, withheld the radiant smile it normally squandered so freely in all directions, except when he was trying to escape the perverse chubby little squint-eyed Zoe, who chased him around urging the other small cousins to take up her terrible accusation. "Higinio has no pathos....Higinio has no paths...
...Bedelia is quietly spectacular. Her soft eyes, tiny voice and sneaky shy smile have previously cast her as the noble loser; here she shows that those emblems of vulnerability can hide reserves of humor and resilience. This is a wonderfully American kind of acting: technically resourceful, but unforced and radiant. Heart Like a Wheel is a pretty darn good movie, but Bonnie Bedelia...
...parent's grief or fear when a child lies near death. Somehow, though, such a situation proves even more disturbing when a mother must compose a flyer that begins, "Please help this little girl live!!" The emphasis provided by the photograph of Jorie on that flyer--her wide, radiant smile stretches towards bright, clear eyes--makes the exclamation points seem almost unnecessary...
Still, there were a few bright spots amid the prevailing gloom. Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegmund) and American Soprano Jeannine Altmeyer (Sieglinde) made a hot-blooded pair of incestuous lovers in Die Walküre, and Baritone Hermann Becht's Alberich was powerfully sung. Hildegard Behrens unleashed her blazing, radiant soprano as Brünnhilde, the fallen Valkyrie whose ultimate sacrifice defeats Alberich's evil and purifies the world for the coming new order...