Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hooray for Ti-Grace. The Catholic Church doesn't worship Mary the enlightened, wise mother-person, but Mary the submissive, pious, baby maker-the receptacle for the great...
...ardor of his choice between his vows and his passion. Diana Rigg succeeds rather better, though she lacks vulnerability. There is a gritty, voracious sensuousness about her that finally makes it clear she has found and lost in this man the only god she could ever bring herself to worship. · T.E.K...
Instead, Mr. Cabot chose to engage in hero-worship, which in most instances is indicative of a mind that ignores the complexities of man, and is always most demeaning, ultimately, to its object. All is my champion, but no man is my idol...
...would want to meet that sort of woman? For 80 years, playgoers have indicated that they are extremely interested in meeting Hedda. They want to know about everything that Miss Bloom fails to tell them: the source and force of her unspent passion, of her neurotic boredom, of her worship of her father, of her loathing for her husband and of many other intriguing things. The playwright has given the actress gold, but it lies under dark ground where she must assiduously dig. The degree of angst that Claire Bloom conveys could easily be relieved with a couple of aspirin...
...remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took him from adoration of the woman to outright lust for her murder, then took him back to worship her beauty, even her procreative beauty...