Word: willfullness
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What Guston did was turn into a figurative painter in his late middle age. This need not have looked bad in itself: the human figure, in various states of smearing and dissection, had long been visible in the work of his friend Willem de Kooning. But the paintings Guston began...
The political development of the white homesteading women represented in the memoirs is well documented as they move from passive helpmates to gun toters, mayors, and temperance and suffrage stumpers. Carrie Nation, one of the more notorious Kansas pioneer women, appears in several memoirs, her rallying cry of "smash, women...
James Dolbear also fails as Nora's tyrannical husband Thomas, unnecessarily Americanized from Ibsen's Torvald. His mugging and blustering gives the character a sort of musical comedy quality; a cute shallowness. His tone never changes. He's not believable for a second as an ambitious, willful man, tortured by...
The film's steamy sex scenes-especially the first, which takes place in the kitchen among foods and utensils as elemental as love and death-will raise eyebrows and temperatures. In part this is because The Postman appears at a time when moviemakers seem to have forgotten that the...
William Hurt is long and smooth-muscled and unlined; he looks like an experimental model for the next, higher form of life: Homo computerens. Sigourney Weaver is all beautiful angles and shining intelligence; she could be a Jane Fonda who studied phenomenology at the Sorbonne and washes her face every...