Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leading up to the murder of Becky's husband, the novel ignores plot development in order to concentrate on an internal examination of the lives of these women. Each chapter is devoted to the viewpoint of one of the three characters, a device that is evidently supposed to subtly reveal a fundamental longing for autonomy common to the women despite their superficial differences...
...bass and sampled strings, and you have a very curious tune. It has the same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices, and performer personalities. Which brings us to yet another problem: Peck's songs and singing don't really reveal much about his personality, which makes them appealing pop radio fodder, but not much else...
...recent interview in Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down, then I would settle down." On paper it looks pretty straightforward, but in the song, with a changing melody over changing chords, it comes out as a tragic epiphany...
...surface, this movie deals with the alcoholism, sexism and abuse of the really codependent but superficially "O-so-happy, June Cleaver" marriages of 1950s America. Through the dialogue and manners of Blanche Dubois, we realize how easily the surface can be scraped away to reveal the truth. Typically Southern and truly deceptive, Blanche speaks her bitter grain of truth wrapped in a sugar coating of politeness...
...smashing the dishes against the wall (then delivering the famous, "do you need help cleaning yours?" line), Kowalski proves himself to be the insensitive, oversexed image of what it is to be a (grunt) real man. He is juxtaposed with Blanche's swaying, swooning, gauzy manners, which explode to reveal a core of steel. The intensity of their exchanges and the force of their personalities make watching these two characters emotionally taxing for the audience...