Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the police smash the group's kidnapping plot, the protagonist Andres worries more about his lover's recent infidelity than the failure of their "revolutionary" act. For the self-absorbed members of the "Screwery," sex is a more important aspect of their rebellion. In this new order, rape and forced sodomy are acts of creativity. These adolescent-like rebels can only confront their modern-day angst by inverting old values. They disguise their nihilism and confusion behind a mask of politicism...
...Oliver of the title is, of course, Oliver Barrett IV, protagonist of Love Story (played again by Ryan O'Neal), and the picture follows him through a couple of years (it seems like more than that) of mooning over his wife Jenny's untimely demise. He buries himself in idealistic lawyering and psychoanalysis, but remains immune not only to sex but even to quite innocent social overtures. Then one day in Central Park he encounters Marcie (Candice Bergen). Since she seems to have some of Jenny's smart-mouthed spirit, he manages at last to accept...
...book takes place in India, where Alter grew up (although he went west for his education). The protagonist, not surprisingly a young man, comes from that hybridization of Englishmen and Hindustani that Georg Orwell described so brilliantly 35 years ago. Alter's hero feels a similar sense of class and cultural instability as those Orwell less charitably referred to as half-breeds. At the start of the book he seduces a young Hindu woman, is caught and beaten to a mild pulp by her rather boorish brothers, and banished by his embarrassed family to the hinterlands. At this point...
...HORSE THIEF'S new wife, Miss Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), is not exactly your average female protagonist in a Western. Ambitious and pennywise, Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...
...does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President's Men and the Parallax View, conveys the someone-is-always-watching-you motif with incomparable creepiness. Donald Sutherland is an intelligent, if pallid detective, but the protagonist is Jane all the way, the frustrated hooker trapped by the emotional and physical perils of her profession. Her best performance to date...