Word: successful
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...survive, however vile, or be willing to die. Pasquale's character is defined by his acceptance of this choice, by his willingness to do anything in order to live. As a low level Mafioso in pre-war Naples, known as Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) because of his inexplicable success with women despite his unattractiveness, he kills the local pimp who has corrupted his less than pristine sister, in the defense of family honor. Having failed to dispose of the body undetected, Pasqualino must choose between honor and survival; animated by his will to live, he pleads insanity. Ultimately, his desire...
...seem ironic that a director who claims politics as her central concern should be so violently antipolitical at the core, and that the most successful leftist director of recent years should turn out to be a stoic in disguise. But in fact, this paradox accounts for much of her success. But in fact, this paradox accounts for much of her success. Her audience understands the message of her films better than she seems to herself; that message speaks to popular if sinister themes of the seventies, legitimating the pursuit of private pleasure and ambition in the name of the impossibility...
Beyond its commercial success, Go disciples claim it develops a far greater mental dexterity than its Western counterpart, chess. Go's applications range not onky to military tactics but to psychology, mind-training and aesthetics, as well. Some Go historians even contend that Go embraces more than a Japanese ideal of mental exercise--that it epitomizes the Japanese spirit itself...
Meredith Monk. Integrations of movement, sound and visual images, choreographed by the performer who promises to be the dance world's next critical success. At the Loeb, February 12-14, at 8. Tickets...
...freshman hockey team coasted to an 8-4 victory over the Brown J.V. squad Saturday after a bumpy start. The Achilles heel of the early part of the season--the defense--was the key to the Crimson's success...