Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though the film is two and a half hours long and spans forty years, The Assault is actually a short epic, concerned with the destiny of the post-war European soul. There is not a gratuitous scene or extraneous line of dialogue in it. Director Fons Rademakers is meticulous yet never plodding. The Assault is a film of obvious artifice, yet it is rarely didactic and always powerful...
SHAKESPEARE CAUTIONED THAT "Brevity is the soul of wit," a dictum taken to heart by the American Repertory Theatre's Late Night Cabaret crew. The two parodies of the Bard they are offering weekends at the Hasty Pudding Theater together run less than hour long; still, at $5 a head, it's more yuk-per-buck than has been seen on a Boston stage for a long time...
...time to time. Perhaps if Evett had found someone to direct himself, he could have achieved the glass-like clarity of Gelber's acting. After all, the only dramatic thing an actor can do in a one-character monologue is to slowly open a window into the character's soul; there's no dialogue, or conflict, or imagery to rely upon...
Donald notes that "Wolfe's fundamental concern was less with political and economic conditions that with the spirit of America." And the spirit of America was, of necessity, one which he had felt in his own soul, deeply, at times abstractly if not outright vaguely, in exhortations and patriotic rumblings and sentimental dithyrambs. The difficulty with such an artistic creed is its high risk factor, its potential to bring about disillusionment...
...neither Stern nor Whitehead had a claim to the service they were dealing with, any more than Faust had a claim to the soul he dealt the Devil. Stern is certainly not the Devil, and Baby M. is not Whitehead's soul. But the emotions that were being traded have a soul-like sanctity in the sense that they belong to the mysteries of the species and are commonly shared. This is what the Vatican suggested when it recently condemned all artificial practices regarding birth, and one does not have to agree with that blanket condemnation to appreciate its basis...