Word: vaines
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...more of an elf than a king. But this is not unintentional, for Kozintsev's Lear emphasizes correctly the humanness of its central character. Lear's fall is not of the same grandeur as Oedipus in Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus-Tyrannus. Rather it is the fall of a vain, petty man whose self-centered need for flattery destroys his only loving daughter and ruins his sacred kingdom...
Divided into two parts, the film first focuses on the eccentricity of the characters who have come to pay tribute to the fallen star. Vain opera celebrities upstage one another while rehearsing for Tatua's memorial concert, a foppish conductor reveals his obsession with the dead soprano while an English lord is cuckolded by a member of the ship's crew. The film moves without direction, as scene after scene of extravagant dinners and meaningless tete-a-tetes follow one another and avoids any serious character or plot development. Instead it concentrates upon painting a picture of the rich...
...most dyspeptically partisan Democrat could hardly have put the warning more bluntly. But Congress and the nation searched in vain through the budget message for fiscal 1985 for any reply to the obvious next question: What does the President propose to do to ward off the dangers he so starkly portrayed? Not until his separate economic message the next day did Reagan give an explicit answer: "We must wait until after this year's election" to make any sweeping moves...
...gain control over the region and perhaps enable what is left of the Palestine Liberation Organization to return. And that, in turn, would constitute an admission that the war in Lebanon, in which more than 560 Israeli soldiers were killed and 3,000 wounded, had been fought in vain. When the Israelis first entered southern Lebanon in June 1982, they were generally welcomed because they were driving out the P.L.O., which had alienated many Lebanese by creating a state within a state in the area. By the standards of occupying forces in the Middle East, the Israelis have behaved reasonably...
This enormous late work casts its ghostly and turbulent shadow over the whole gallery where other Titians, Veroneses and Moronis hang. Its subject is probably the most repulsive in the classical lexicon: the implacably vain Apollo has beaten the satyr Marsyas in a music contest judged by the nine Muses; now he collects his forfeit, which is to skin Marsyas alive. Renaissance humanists turned this myth into a fable of reason triumphing over darker instincts, and it was in that sense that Titian meant to paint...