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...ROPE IS especially though-provoking and dramatic entertainment. The cast does a superb job in both realistically portraying the central conflict in the Hitchcock classic and in providing an unusually energetic and suspenseful performance...
...fine cast helps considerably, Clov, played by John Bottoms, embodies the desperation of a man at the end of his rope, he hisses at Hamm like a confused animal trapped in a cage. Rodney Hudson is superb as Nagg. He is a frightened and helpless old man without the innocent irrationality that makes the similar state of infancy bearable. When Nell dies, his face twists in heartbreaking agony as he sinks into his garbage...
...Poles waited in long lines last week to file past the wreath-banked grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, the outspoken Solidarity supporter who was murdered by the secret police. Church officials who viewed the martyred priest's body reported that he had been savagely beaten. A rope had been tied around his neck, wrists and ankles so that he would strangle himself if he struggled to get free. Three fingers of Popieluszko's left hand were sliced through to the bone, and there were deep gouges on his arms. His lungs contained enough water to indicate that...
...certain undiminishable power in the struggle between Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), all snaky masculine guile, and Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), representing feminism at its most sternly ideological, for the innocent soul of Verena Tarrant. But Ivory's camera behaves like a tourist trapped meekly behind a velvet rope at a historical reconstruction, and most of his actors seem afraid they might damage the nicely chosen antiques the curator has permitted them to perch upon...
...adds, "this is the best evidence I've seen up to this time that human illness is somehow linked to the use of antibiotics in animals for growth promotion. This study draws the net much tighter around the issue, but it is still a net, not a rope.'' -By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Leslie Cauley/Atlanta and Patricia Delaney/Washington