Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, I think I had the usual marvelous time at Harvard: that is, a sequence of intermittent depressions, often unrecognized (save for those that coincided with the Cambridge winter), broken now and then by periods of great spiritual exaltation or sexual overexcitement, depending on one's point of view...
Nothing, not even exercise, is more tiresome than listening to some cholesterol-free windbag hyperventilate about how his energy has doubled, his triglyceride level has dropped, his sexual performance is off the charts, and his life expectancy has approached that of a Galapagos tortoise, all because he has begun daily sessions on an exercise bicycle. Nothing stimulates the gag reflex so quickly as news photos of entire families-mom, dad and six children-jogging in identical warmup suits. And nothing is more appalling than, as a 10-to 15-mile-a-week runner (which is to say a moderate lunatic...
...with comparable fondness. Between the Lines, like its characters, presents itself as eminently likeable. Some of its individual sequences are funny in a delicate, almost priceless way. There is the scene, for example, in which Stanley, all mustache and glasses, defends himself against Lynn's charges that he had sexual intentions towards her during their last date. She: "You were literally on my body." He: "That's your perception of the situation...
...propensity to date other men unnerves Gene. His sexual and romantic fidelity evidently is superflous to her, for she engages in dalliances with all comers. The coup d'grace occurs when Gene arrives home to find Lou sharing a Pabst Blue Ribbon with dapper Steven Alexander, math teacher at Boyton University. His outraged reaction and her unwillingness to be relegated to one man precipitate the couple's breakup, an event that sends the free-lance student reeling through Maine, Iowa, and California...
John Heard, as the second husband, is an appealingly stingless jellyfish. Despite her slightly mannered delivery of certain lines, Geraldine Page is a co quettish flirt while remaining a sexual feline with unretracted claws. Rip Torn has an affinity for Strindberg; he drinks up his part as if it were hemlock with a sprig of mint. A frequently underestimated actor, Torn exudes a combustible sense of imminent danger that makes him one of the most powerful presences on the U.S. stage...