Word: serpents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the inadequacies, Olivier more than makes up for them. His Richard is an elemental force, the principle of evil itself. The feral face (modeled, Olivier says, on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I) allures the eye as a great serpent might. And Richard's ruttishness, in the amazing scene of the widow's seduction, is a slimy, cold convulsion...
...Great Adventure. Arne Sucksdorff's camera glides like a serpent through an Eden in Sweden, and the natural world like an Eve reveals her tender, terrible secrets (TIME, June...
Only Words. Like all good things, however, the happy life at Pont-l'Evéque was eventually soured by those who took too great advantage of it. The principal serpent in Warden Billa's paradise was an ardent, free-lancing lover who sent so many uncensored love letters that authorities took notice. An investigation followed, and the carefree warden was arrested along with eight of his prisoners...
...weirder aspects-its imaginativeness, its crazy-paved fantasies. Tom, for instance, is a sleepwalker. His "walks" carry him in and out of time itself. He goes back to medieval days and alchemy. He goes back to ancient Greece, back to the Garden of Eden itself. "Well, Adam," says the serpent, "so you've come back at last . . ." But he has not brought any Eve with him-in fact, Eve is conspicuously absent from most of the trilogy...
...Beginning was the Woman. Goddess of All Things," she rose naked out of Chaos, danced so wildly that great wind sprang up. The goddess caressed the wind and it became a great serpent which coiled itself lustfully around her. The goddess became pregnant, assumed a dove's form laid "the Universal Egg." Out of the Egg tumbled all things that exist sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs and living creatures." Swollen with pride the serpent declared himself "the author ot tne universe," which made the goddess so angry that she kicked...