Word: wifeless
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...challenge of remaining watchable while playing it odious is one few actors can survive. Corddry, who has until now been best known for his appearances on The Daily Show, ably meets it. Childless, wifeless Lou is a bundle of anger and avarice, and writers Josh Heald, Sean Anders and John Morris load him up with harshly hilarious lines. Upon the boys' arrival in Room 420 (wink, wink), Lou gets on the phone in an attempt to order hookers while demanding Ritalin from the Gen-Yer Jacob. "Oh, come on, every single one of you has Ritalin," he says in exasperation...
Sometimes these two voices sound too alike,Murray and Zuckerman are both old, wifeless andliterate. Shakespeare is quoted. Ira's boringtirades are related in the sweet, slow molassesconversation of these two old men. The style islike the slow tourist boats that puff down theRhine, playing the uncanny Lorelei, the ballad oflove lost on the Rhine's violent rocks. It is thesort of voice Roth always does well, but it losesits punch when scattered across two differentpersonalities...
...with a small cache of supplies and the modest remains of his savings account, and rolled out of his Columbia, Mo., home in search of the forgotten land. Life's desperate moments are terrifying but also exhilarating, for they open up the vast possibilities of reckless abandon. Jobless, wifeless, and 38 years old--"an age that carries its own madness and futility"--Least Heat Moon "took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected...
...unquestionably is suffering a small but steady erosion of its clerical ranks. A major cause of defection - and of restlessness among priests who prefer to stay within the church - is the question of celibacy. Even though Pope Paul has made it clear that he will maintain the rule of wifeless priests, a surprisingly large number of clerics think that some modification is in order. This month Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that priests...
...fierce but loses much of its bite toward the end when Director Morassi begins to moralize, using cinematic italics merely to emphasize that a poor honest slob is better off than a well-fixed heel. By the time Giulio has learned how to succeed, he is jobless, friendless, wifeless and miserably rich. It is left to Gassman to give the film lightness and laceration. He is the compleat climber, abristle with tight-smiling assurance and an air of faintly desperate camaraderie that makes Il Successo's trumped-up sociology seem like the whole truth...