Word: taboos
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...Mark (at the Fenway, KE 6-0610) has been called a daring excursion into areas taboo to movies. But this story of a sex criminal and his rehabilitation has been so watered down that no one can possibly get very upset. There is some good acting, and the picture is generally enjoyable...
Many Americans regard Williams as an erotomaniac, for whom the mildest epithets are "sick" and "decadent." Yet taboo has often been the touchstone of drama. In the profoundest play of Greek tragedy, a man kills his father and marries his mother. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan drama drip with gore and violence and flaunt unnatural affections. Other critics think that Williams' choice of themes shows America to be -as angry young British Playwright John Osborne puts it -"as sex-obsessed as a medieval monastery." Yet Tennessee Williams fills foreign playhouses from Athens to Tokyo, and his current play, The Night...
...Taboo. Since any guerrilla band must have the support of the local populace to survive, the Special Forces are sternly schooled in the techniques of staying out of trouble in foreign countries. Carousing, and consorting with native women are taboo. Says one veteran of South Viet Nam: "We haven't room for the man who wears his beret at a rakish angle, swaggers into a bar and starts telling everyone he's an American superman. That's when the job goes to hell...
...thievery, cannot stay out of trouble. He deserts the army, and back in the city continues to brawl and rob. At the same time, he proves simpler, more genuine than any of his siblings, although he has difficulty in being able to love, especially as he must accept the taboo which prevents his declaring and consummating his passion for his half-sister Antonia. He harbors a just hatred for the police; while admitting his wrongdoings, he has suffered brutal torture at their hands, when they tried to make him confess to crimes he didn't commit...
...triangle is clearly irregular in the remake, and Shirley MacLaine, all forlorn, gives the best performance of her career as the teacher who is sickened to find that she is partly homosexual. Though the taboo word "lesbian" does not defile the sound track, the handling of "that kind of love" is reasonably adult (it is customary to praise Hollywood for being reasonably adult, as one praises a three-year-old for not spilling too much oatmeal...