Word: seducees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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You enter to the tinkling bell full of the suspect hope of rescuing yourself, your long-lost self, your deserved self, the self that has been promised by the many-tongued copy boys and girls (although you profess to be unconvinced). You are sophisticated: the meretricity of attractive bottles holding...
Yet taking all the characters at face value, their face values lack complexity and beauty of character. Henry James is missing. Still, there are some things the film captures in their ripe fulness. Where the frontality of the characters makes us want a wise mediator, the simple scenes of a...
Mozart and Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte created an enormously alluring, vital protagonist who pursues his appetites with cheerful disregard for law or morality. After forcing himself on a noblewoman, Donna Anna, he duels with her father, the Commendatore, and kills him. Then, while the Don busies himself mostly with trying...
Predictably, Jessica reappears, dressed to seduce the Ayatollah. On the brink of luring Potter into her motel-room sack, she sings again--a cockroach doing Donna Summer. But bitchy glamour appeals to Potter; he wants to try life with Jessica again. In a bizarre scene meant to symbolize his anxiety...
One Bowles character jots down a "recipe for dissolving the impression of hideousness made by a thing: Fix the attention upon the given object or situation so that the various elements, all familiar, will regroup themselves. Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern." Bowles may believe this, but his...