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...19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave, deputizing an icily moral Lord Angelo to govern in his place. The Duke hopes prostitution will be curbed this way. Angelo, true to form, immediately shuts the whorehouses...
...takes each partner's hand in turn, holds it for a moment, releases it to raise both arms, then graciously takes the hand of the next waiting suitor. In the end, she releases the fourth partner's hand to bloom into an unsupported arabesque, in the most radiant moment of the entire ballet...
...mule to the rusty sex rites of an aged couple; or the scenes showing how far the "spare the rod" philosophy of rearing is literally taken by the father of the future writer Gavio Ledda (Saverio Marconi). Mario Masini's cinematography especially shines in filming the lush greens and radiant ambers of a sunlit Sardinian landscape. But most importantly, few movies have ever probed the bitter relationship of an intractable patriarch and his eldest son more sensitively and his unflinchingly than the quasi-literary "Padre, Padrone...
...mule to the rusty sex rites of an aged couple; or the scenes showing how far the "spare the rod" philosophy of rearing is literally taken by the father of the future writer Gavio Ledda (Saverio Marconi). Mario Masini's cinematography especially shines in filming the lush greens and radiant ambers of a sunlit Sardinian landscape. But most importantly, few movies have ever probed the bitter relationship of an intractable patriarch and his eldest son more sensitively and unflinchingly than the quasi-literary "Padre, Padrone...
...where would that leave Cheryl Tiegs? Unconcerned. Her too radiant health could be subdued by the greens and purples in Way Bandy's paint box. Bows and ruffles would be easy. The wind machine could be turned off. Suga could stand on his tiptoes and comb in romance. The bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...