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...years of their marriage. As time passes and Yerma's age mates become pregnant and bear children, Yerma remains barren, "empty." Her desire for a baby becomes an obsession, her infertility a trauma that begins to blur the boundaries between psychological and physical pain until it becomes an unbearable torment to her ("Every woman has enough blood inside her for three or four children," she says despairingly, "and if she doesn't have them, it'll turn to poison...
Ostwald sustains that fine balance between objectivity and intimacy throughout the book, as he explores Gould's growing torment and his sad decline. Ostwald's abiding concern for his often exasperating friend, whom he was never able to induce to seek therapy, makes this superb psychological study also a poignant personal memoir...
With his performance as Howard Brackett in In & Out--the Frank Oz comedy about an Indiana schoolteacher who is outed as a homosexual during a former student's televised acceptance speech at the Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also...
...have to admit I felt some envy about that part. I went right home and called John and told him." Kline professes to have no objection to doing a big-budget action movie but can think of only one action character--a charming hero racked with inner emotional torment--he'd like to play. "I think a gay James Bond would be fun," he says...
...crucial component of the first-year seminar application is an interview, which is often given to groups of two or three. I had expected 20 minutes of torment and stress underneath intense scrutiny from professors whose academic repertoire and expertise would read like the hefty course catalog in my backpack. I would be yet another illiterate ingrate in their retinue. But professors here did not prove as frightening as I had imagined they would...