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For most of these aspiring talents, the attraction of writing works of length lies not in the glory of publishing but with the itch to create. Glenn E. Orenstein '88, who is currently working on a book called "Margaret Would Not Wash My Underwear," terms writing "an obsession."
Brustein's Changeling is thus about passion and virginity--though not of the Hail Mary, controversially-Catholic variety that recently has been thrust into the headlines. Here the reputation of virginity--protagonist Beatrice-Joanna Vermandero's (Diane D'Aquila) obsession to keep her honor intact--leads to doom and destruction...
The focus of this obsession is humble in its size: it is merely a small, round beanbag resembling a miniature baseball in design. To devotees of the sport of Hackey Sack, however, the bag's significance is quite large.
Obviously curtailed by Reisz's annoying obsession with portraying "the total woman," the two are permitted to develop their intriguing love-hate relationship only at discrete intervals throughout the course of the movie. If things had been otherwise, we might have been treated to a country-style Breathless if not...
The new vigilance verges on obsession. Paddy wagons can be seen prowling Moscow's streets, collecting drunks and depositing them for the night in sobering-up stations run by the police. Bartenders are measuring out vodka with stingy precision or refusing service altogether when customers reach the legal limit.