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...excels at putting down the trappings and pretensions of the middle-class life of Los Angeles with tart asides on stylish psychiatrists discussing the notion of "sport screwing," teen-age swingers, and hip health-food restaurants where satanic waiters recite the menu like an incantation. Yet he can be tender, too, and his characters are never merely clowns or pawns of plot. With a deft and cunning irony, he can point out the essential selfishness of Blume's anguish without ever playing down to it. Occasionally, though, Mazursky loses perspective, and his characters become unintentionally funny. This happens when...
...TENDER CARNIVORE AND THE SACRED GAME...
Cranky and ingenious, exasperating and entertaining, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game may not quite make it as the gospel of salvation of the season. But it is as hard to put down as a caveman's pet club. Shepard scants no claims for his cureall. Hunting will end war-because hunters "do not make war." Hunting will stamp out heart disease; the anxious jogger is only miming the chase. You can bet that the hunter has no trouble with his sex life either. Shepard goes lyrical about the connection between the kill and the orgasm...
...conditions. She speaks frequently of "the women in every man." To clarify the meaning of this idea she says, "I'm talking about a part of man that gets denied in his trying to fit a male stereotype. It's a quality that makes a person capable of being tender, of showing emotion, being able to communicate openly, to have respect for other human beings as people rather than objects... Most women do have these qualities. Women gets these qualities through her biological role, although it's not always easy. It wasn...
...eight decades, Wunderkinder have come and gone since Arthur Ru binstein was recognized as a prodigy by the eminent violinist Joseph Joachim. All of them, no doubt, have had experience as tender as Rubinstein...