Word: symbolisme
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Jack Gelber's screenplay provides a loose framework in which the actors develop their roles. What symbolism he introduces is entirely appropriate. For instance, Cowboy dresses all in white, like an angel, and he brings with him Sister Salvation (Barbara Winchester), a little old lady with whom he has allied...
As the peasant settles down on the padre's church steps, the city throbs to carnival tempo. It is a feast day. Some newsmen hear of Ze's plight and exploit him in headlines as a Communist agitator, a heretic, a miracle worker; then the pimp instigates a...
Stretched too far to be believable, Canvas is the kind of overdrawn foolishness that frequently proves diverting. Its existential blend of sex, symbolism and comedy reaches a bizarre climax when Horst takes Catherine to a party at his mother's villa. In his mother's bedroom, crowning a...
If he has done nothing else, Erich Remarque has given to modern fiction a new sort of nonhero-the nameless and rootless refugee who is forever on the run. In Remarque's new novel, the refugee goes by the name of Schwarz-but Schwarz, of course, is not his...
But Writer Waterhouse has done his real work beyond easy symbolism and easier outrage, in the Dickensian world of created character. He is what a writer should be, no pamphleteer but a patient and compassionate exhibitor of the tender and grisly oddments that find themselves locked up, helter-skelter, in...