Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past. They are nothing but sinners. Where Faulkner's characters are sinners, the eroticism of their South, its very sound and fury, is their redemption. But Flannery O'Conner's characters are arrested in the thicket of their psychological-situational complexity and imprisoned in the future of dusty, democratizing sin...
...Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura of intrigue and the giddy opulence. The once-imposing semicircle of banks and commercial houses along the Hwang Pu River only dimly reflects the day when Western tycoons lounged in the lobby of the Cathay (now Peace) Hotel or wheeled around in bulletproof cars...
...much composed of short, jerky cuts and reaction shots and transparent attempts to "open it up" by using many scene locales rather than the single two-room set of the play, a style which does nothing to enhance the fluidity and concentration of the original. By far the worst sin of the film can be attributed to the censors, who apparently disliked even the idea of Stanley attacking Blanche, let alone its graphic illustration. So the climatic rape scene is not climactic but ambiguous, which leaves the close of the film, wherein Blanche is shown completely psychotic, highly unsatisfactory. Unless...
Kafka in 1920 is already living under the shadow of the tuberculosis which is to kill him four years later. He is a man, he tells Janouch, in rebellion against himself, caught in the "I", "a cage from the past." Visited by the "ever-recurrent sin of despair," he sees the disintegration of individual and society all around him. In his own double life at his writing and at the office he illustrates the modern dichotomy between what Heidegger called the "I", the real self, and the "one", the anonymous, social self, the role. Trained as a lawyer, Kafka speaks...
...could file as singles rather than as marrieds. With that, Mrs. McGrath fired off a wry letter to Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, complaining that "the U.S. Congress has provided us with a strong economic incentive to obtain a divorce and thereafter to live more prosperously in sin...