Word: victor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deceit where characters, unable to reveal themselves, become two-dimensional, walking enigmas. The role of Laura, the beautiful go-between, demands a constant aura of intensity from actress Laura Morante. But the part written as a never-relaxing alternation between grief and sexual passion, vctimizes her with its unplayability. Victor Cavallo as Adelfo, the worker-priest who feeds the pigs, also suffers from the flat script, which forces him to stay calm and distanced, his religious acceptance erecting a rigid, unbroken stoicism to block him from the audience. With such starkness, Bertolucci may be striving to create a modern morality...
...which will meet until CHUL dissolves to makes way for the new Undergraduate Council, is designed to "look at how race relations have been handled over the years and, in particular, this year with the new Race Relations Foundation and the rejection of minority representation in the construction,' said Victor G. Freeman '84, who heads the CHUL student contingent...
...short, by the end of Victor/ Victoria, Writer-Director Blake Edwards ("10," The Pink Panther series) has managed to overturn virtually all his characters' sexual roles and the audience's expectations as well. He has also made, in the midst of much well-timed farce, a fairly serious point: namely that sexual identities have precious little to do with the qualities, moral and otherwise, that make people good, attractive or fun to be with...
...refusal to apologize for outlandish behavior." This spirit, O'Toole argues, informed the mannered and stylized American comedies, musicals and romances of the '30s and '40s, many of which are now considered classics. These days he finds it notably lacking. Of the current crop, Victor/ Victoria perhaps aspires to some of it, though the musical numbers unfortunately miss the oldtime zip and fizz...
...period just after any diplomatic victory is frequently the most precarious. The victor is tempted to turn the screw one time too many; the loser, rubbed raw by the humiliation of his defeat, may be so eager to recoup that he suddenly abandons rational calculation...