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This is followed by a mystical and erotic scene that reaches to explain the mysteries of fecundity that evade and torment Yerma. Reach it does, but not quite far enough; while the symbolism and open sexuality of the Male and Female Mask is striking and effective, the closing of the semi-circle of cast members into a circle, which now excludes the audience, isolates and distances spectators who before had been drawn into the circle of Yerma's pain...
...power plants he passes, and is horrified at the despair of jobless young people, but the nec essary briskness of a travel book prevents him from saying anything compelling on these subjects. At times he seems to be seeking out ennui at its most numbing, as if to raise torment to a mystical level...
...very simple punishment. "Stinking intellectuals" were supposed to learn from the peasants what life is like when one must stoop for hours transplanting rice seedlings in the wet muck. Horror stories spurt ? not grisly horror like eye gouging (which was reported only in south China), but simpler torment like being interrogated round the clock by Red Guards...
...also told of how Mao, who did not believe in torment but in "reeducation" of his enemies, heard about an old Yanan comrade being imprisoned and tortured. "But this is fascism, not Communism!" cried Mao, and ordered punishment relaxed to house arrest...
...going to hang her or he would put her in a coffin-like box before abusing her sexually. Still, she says, "when father wasn't being horrible, he was the person in the family who loved me most." She blames her mother for not ending her torment. Sherry developed multiple personalities, married and divorced an abusive man ("He was going to kill me"), has a teen-age son, now works as a teacher and researcher in Los Angeles. She has been in therapy for twelve years. "Once a week," she says, "I just sit and cry for what...