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...pastime, as always, is sex. Furtive sex. Tainted sex. Hand-on-the-thigh-in-the-back-seat sex. Nice girls never let boys go "all the way," and nice boys never deflower a virgin. All the townsfolk are decent types, but the featureless landscape and the oven-like days render them insensible. Any diversion suffices; the torturing of a feeble-minded boy soon becomes no more than an evening's entertainment...
...abortion is more positive than her mother's ("There was no question in my mind how important it is to plan children"), but even her attitude is not unclouded. After her second abortion, Jane felt weakened and developed a fever; she began to fear that some complication might render her sterile. "I suddenly realized that I did want children," she said. "Then I began to value the ability to conceive...
...Supreme Court could render all these cases moot during its upcoming term. The court has agreed to hear challenges to Texas and Georgia abortion laws, and if it should decide for the plaintiffs, its action could nullify most anti-abortion laws...
...chance bequest in 1948 was one of the few paintings the Marmottan already owned (and may be the only clue to why Monet fils chose the Marmottan). To the end of his life, Monet insisted that his one achievement was to have worked "directly from nature, striving to render my impressions in the face of the most fugitive effects...
Those events would be difficult to render in the best of cinematic circumstances. Director Visconti provides the worst. Mann is supposed to have based his hero on Gustav Mahler. So Visconti, ruthlessly deleting Mann's imagination, makes the neoclassic author a Romantic musician-accompanied by plaintive strains of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, emphasized until it becomes as banal as the theme from Love Story. Mann's Aschenbach was a harrowed spent figure with a dead wife and a grown daughter. Visconti's is played by Dirk Bogarde, a man barely into middle age. Accordingly...