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While Valmont seduces everything in a skirt, the Marquise is an equally manipulative woman. She claims that she was "born to dominate [the male] sex and avenge my own." She is a mistress of detachment. She creates a stark barrier between her true feelings and her appearance. These deceptive underpinnings fuel the nervous tension that culminates in an eventful climax, in which the protagonists learn that "vanity and happiness are incompatible...
...Welles made a wonderful movie -- an eccentric adaptation that is in spirit as true to Shakespeare's text as, say, Verdi's Otello. The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text...
While Clinton's desire to spread Western ideals is less than perfect, his rhetorical vision offers a stark contrast to Bush's actions. At some point in every general election campaign -- and no matter the state of the economy -- voters pause to consider the candidates' foreign and defense policies. When they do, they will have a clear choice -- assuming of course that Clinton, as President, would actually inhale his vision...
...Tyson could shrug off his athlete's notoriety with the same speed, he might pacifically endure his stir time. Can this happen? The odds are long. In jail he runs a risk of being the brutalized victim, under no laws but those of survival and silence. There, some stark lifer with nothing to lose may be the fighter of Tyson's nightmares. If any crime is more underreported than date rape, it is prison rape...
...duke "is calming down, but he is bitter." Fulfilling one of his official engagements, the man once dubbed Randy Andy alighted from his Jaguar at the Contemporary Dance Trust headquarters in Central London with a broad smile and a wave at the crowd of bystanders. It was in stark contrast to the glum visage the Royal Navy lieutenant commander and helicopter pilot displayed a day earlier as he drove between Sunninghill Park, his and Fergie's controversial modern mansion near Windsor Palace, and the Army Staff College at Camberley, 25 miles southwest of London...