Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excommunication and then her death. The Cardinal seduces and discards young women, betrays his brother, an ally in the conspiracy against the duchess, and is finally himself assassinated. The audience applauds when the Cardinal dies: Cort's portrayal allows for no sympathy. Cort relishes his role as a relentless villain, stalking across the stage, raising a disdainful eyebrow at the masquerade his sister arranges to entertain him, and reciting the sonorous phrases of the Latin excommunication ritual with majestic self-righteousness. We believe it when someone says "the Devil speaks...
...causes of his collapse. Some people will be titillated by the openness with which homosexual love is portrayed in the film. But this is mostly a slow, cautious biography, elegantly attentive to Edwardian decor and dress. It slights Nijinsky's melodramatic story and, finally, offends with its relentless reductionism. There are times when excesses of good taste become a kind of bad taste, a falsification of a subject's spirit and milieu. This is never more true than when the troubles of a genius are presented in boring and conventional terms...
...were on the stage--no action is taken for granted. Davis ignites her portrayal of Sybylla with an uncompromising zest, a passion for living. Sybylla becomes a firecracker, exploding in the face of the convention that surrounds her. In one scene she shoves Frank Hawdon, a relentless and bungling suitor, into a pen of sheep and later leaves him stranded, miles from anywhere, as she flies off with their carriage...
...that bustle and activity arise not from a deep need to come to grips with the social forces that probably shaped the lives of its young creators, but from hype. It is not just a question of Davis' overextended performance but of scenes pushed out of shape by relentless, hard-driving direction, of a heavily romantic score intended to force responses out of the audience, of melodramatic cadenzas in the writing that are ill prepared for. The members of the Small Circle are not really involved in the larger events of the story; they are acted upon by them...
Victor Morrissey, 50, is in Britain to open a branch office. His wife is in a wheelchair in Scarsdale, N.Y. She lost both legs when, enraged and intoxicated after learning of her husband's philandering, she drove her car into a concrete abutment. The relentless tenet of The Bleeding Heart is that women always suffer and pay more than...