Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lenny, 7:30 p.m., weekend showing at 3:15 p.m.; and Last Tango in Paris 9:30 p.m., weekend showing...
...Neurotica essays were later published together as Love and Death, which has had considerable influence on many social and literary critics, most notably Leslie Fiedler (Love and Death in the American Novel). But Legman is no advocate of the so-called new freedom. The sex practiced in Last Tango in Paris revolted him no less than the plastic horrors of Jaws...
...scene where she kisses Gennarino's feet after he has symbolically thrust a stake through a skinned rabbit, the comedy is dissipated. Using the graceful closeups which distinguish her style, Wertmuller evokes the intensity and eroticism of a great love affair so subtly and effectively as to make Last Tango in Paris seem like a mouthwash commercial. The subjective gaze of the camera and the expressive interaction of the actors combine to compel the audience to identify strongly with the characters, men with Gennarino and women with Raffaella. In fact, the emotional force of the relationship juxtaposed with the tranquil...
Except for one bried foray into Last Tango in Paris the superb player never even touched upon a single request for his old music--not even Encuentros--to his audience's dismay...
...work like Tango (circa 1919), the dress suit and the white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...