Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While this miracle is duly passed by Director Tyrone Guthrie in tumultuous blood-spattered surges of on-and off-stage violence, a far more significant encounter takes place. Gideon walks and talks with God in all the glory and torment of the ancient Hebrew prophets. The Lord is wrathful and jealous; yet his fatherly love is ever close. Gideon is skeptical and petulant; yet at times he almost swoons in an ecstasy of faith...
Abracadabra! The Evil One relieves Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) of his atrocious eternal torment, seduction without satisfaction, and restores him to life with infernal instructions: lance that sty. The Great Lover-whom Bergman wittily conceives as the typical hero of a hair-oil ad, the sort of won't-you-be-my-Valentino every schoolgirl at some point adores-arrives at the rendezvous to find his ladylove smeared with housepaint and dressed in blue jeans. He stares in dismay. What...
...love him. even a little? "No." Suddenly he begins to understand that, on the contrary, it is he who loves her; that for the first time in life or death he is in love. In dignity and silence he descends again into hell, he returns to a torment infinitely more terrible because now, with a heart awakened by love, he can truly feel the meaningless enormity of his eternal lust...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...
...look at The Explorers, one of the book's more successful stories, shows that he is right. Three young hoods with time to kill wander to the edge of the Central Park boat pond and try mockingly to talk with a girl there. When she ignores them, they torment a small Negro boy until she protests. Then, abruptly, they drop the game; it is time for an ominous appointment. Curtain. Weidman delivers his grim moment expertly, but the reader's admiration is mixed. There is something safe and synthetic about the story. One feels that if Hemingway...