Word: sin
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...last straw is the cast. Bibi Anderson (the sister) and Per Oscarsson (the brother) tease you for 50-odd minutes. She's so beautiful, he's so wolfish, you expect that the wages of sin will be excitement. But Sjoman doesn't keep them on screen long enough to produce a stir. At the end he removes them completely in favor of a screaming baby. Leave early...
CABARET, winner of eight Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, is all binding and no book. The ambiance of the musical, set in the decadent Berlin of the 1930s, is as sinuous and sexy as original sin, but the show's plot line and score are all predictability and convention...
...into preaching the optimistic "Social Gospel" of the early 1900s. But the Depression and World War II were too harsh a reality for many ministers, and they followed Reinhold Niebuhr into acceptance of a Bible-centered "crisis theology." Man's best efforts, Niebuhr reminded Christians, were flawed by sin; God's kingdom was not to come until the end of the world...
...Absolution and Redemption," a satire on, of all things, Calvinism-a highly successful satire which not so long ago would have gotten him dunked in every pond in Massachusetts. The Puritan game delights in the fact that wherever the player moves, he can't help but fall into sin, McClelland's apt use of the unexpected turns a good idea into a brilliantly funny piece...
Unforgivable Sin. Yet the fact that Tvardovsky has been able to print what he has shows that official restraints have loosened considerably. It was only a year ago that Authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were sentenced to labor camps for critical works-though their unforgivable sin was that they published them in the West. The debate between liberals and dogmatists will intensify as the time approaches for next month's Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers-the first conclave of its kind in eight years. As for Tvardovsky, he still hopes to succeed in an ambitious new project: publication...