Word: torment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a judgment-day device is risky, to be sure. In the hands of a lesser writer it could be self-defeatingly simplistic; in Moore's hands it comes off convincingly triumphant. Fergus has recurring moments of flip inner torment: "God, how do other writers deal with these situations? How did, say, Faulkner manage to come out here time after time and take the money and run . . .? The thought of Faulkner steadied Fergus, for Faulkner had endured and prevailed. ... If Faulkner started seeing his dead parents first thing in the morning, he would settle right in and make...
...planned this to torment me,' " a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's-length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...
...planned this to torment me,'" a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...
...introduce this narrative simply to say that I did not then-nor do I now-accept the theory that all the-hideous torment of that time was caused by him. What the historians will have to explain is not Joseph McCarthy. It is rather the reception he was accorded. Millions upon millions of people in the United States needed him and wanted him, or at the very least accepted him, and in so doing in a sense created...
Never has Bergman created in any other film a more clinical, reductive, spiritless, or hollow prototype of himself as artist, or more aptly, as architect of the themes of human torment. Elis looks and even dresses in a way that resembles the director and shares as his defense against the world the same vast resignation and distancing. Bergman devises his own special "alienation effect," with the actors speaking to the camera about what sort of person each character "is," as if they are universal givens. Whereas Brecht and Godard use the technique of actors speaking as themselves to remind...