Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam, a student named Juan, to descent into the garden from his garret room next door...
...graze in his garden, talking to his vegetative creations with no sharp sinisterness. Even if he cares for his daughter, he's supposed to be a man who is imperious if not self-deifying. Fink improves at the end to bellow like the God of Genesis at his New Adam and Eve in their garden of evil...
...mockery. David Kleeman as Chief Brown Bear is so overly dignified and wooden that he deserves a chair in the Classics Department. Fleet Foot, portrayed by Alan Middleton, is the typical half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...
...death. Later that day, a man who identified himself as Roger Ferretti telephoned Scranton police to report that he had just killed a woman-and the call was routinely recorded. The cops located Ferretti, who denied killing the woman or making the call. Two days later police arrested Adam Topa, now 56, a factory worker who knew Ferretti and had been out drinking with the victim the night of the murder. The evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial: bits of wool found on his bloodstained jacket matched the woman's coat. The most striking evidence came from...
...justice. He will go away with the girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...