Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater bragged that he would turn Willie Horton, a Black convicted murderer who raped a woman during a furlough from a Massachusetts prison, into "a household name." Horton's dark, sinister face now appears in pro-Bush leaflets and television advertisements in an effort to stir up the ugliest and basest fear of whites--a Black man raping a white woman...
Bush insists that he presses the Horton hot button just to emphasize his supposed toughness on crime. But would he spend millions relating the Horton story to the public if it concerned a white man who raped a Black woman...
...give truly outstanding peformances. Among these is Kristi Trostel, who plays Julia Shuttlethwaite. She plays the role of the obnoxious busybody to the hilt. Her hand gestures, her diction and her stage presence are all fantastic. Her performance is terrific except for one minor detail. It seems that a woman of Julia's social standing would not constantly let her stockings sag around her ankles...
Keaton skillfully portrays Anna as a woman in search of emotional direction in her life. Although her Anna has a complete and vibrant relationship with Molly, she has never felt romantically fulfilled. We empathize with Anna when she tells a friend about the emptiness of her sex life with Brian and feel her pain when Molly leaves to spend the weekend with her father, just as we later sense the sudden, expansive joy that she finds with...
...toothsome aristocrat. Russell oils the dialogue with lots of slithery images: killer vacuum-cleaner hoses and serpentine watch hands, Snakes and Ladders gameboards and pickled earthworms in aspic. With all the dream demons and succubus seductions, the movie starts to look like a man's fearful scenario of woman's seductive power. Is Russell just kidding or deadly serious? The answer is, as always, both. His campfire tale may be more camp than fire, but it shows the cinema's last angry mannerist in good humor and fine form...