Word: temptresses
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...roots of such prejudice, contends Dr. Daly, lie in the Old Testament. Eve in Genesis is pictured as created from Adam's rib and as responsible for his fall from grace and innocence; the effect is to cast woman as a subordinate being to man and a sinful temptress. Catholic theologians have argued that the church's devotion to the Virgin Mary enhances the stature of women. Miss Daly answers that Christ's mother in fact is "glorified only in accepting the subordinate role assigned to her" in God's plan of salvation...
...honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman. As with the role of Cleopatra, it is virtually impossible for any actress to live up to that kind of advance billing. Jennifer West fails abysmally by playing Helen as a dumb, dumb blonde, more waitress than temptress; far from launching a thousand ships, it appears doubtful whether she could pilot a coffee cup across a hash house...
...photographs. The clumsiness of the amateur actors in the several fight scenes betray the excellent cinemastic ideas which inspired them. Too often, Lerner's delayed reactions suggest a bored actor. And in several sequences, Miss Anschuetz looks like a very beautiful child twisting her features to burlesque a temptress. The best major performance, I think, comes from Erica Ivers as the villainous nurse...
...Hitchcock and Welles very well) has had the wit to pick good models. I wonder, though, whether his larger view of human relationships and actions hasn't been over-determined by the number of movies he's seen. Is it intentional that the triangle of Cliffie, hero, and ellusive temptress so closely parallels the triangle in Vertigo? I suppose it is, but I can't help preferring the Hunter who very logically (and rather sweetly) sets the recently de-zombied roommate to opening a pile of mail which has collected during his zombiedom...
...Homecoming Vivien plays temptress and tigress, an enigmatic queen of the snarling jungle in her in-laws' house. Her hooded hazel eyes crinkle with bemusement, sag in boredom, flash with killing contempt or sexual electricity. Her fellow actors are all members in high standing of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, but it is Vivien who overpowers them all as the household whore-mother...