Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived 46 more years and never wrote another novel. Furbank suggests several reasons for this long silence, including Forster's growing reluctance to portray conventional love (Maurice, his one explicitly homosexual novel, was written in his 30s and published only after his death). A Passage to India seemed to exhaust the theme that had stretched from his earlier work. Most important, Forster had exorcised most of his private demons. He began to find those friendships, physical and emotional, that he had desired for so long. One, with a happily married ex-London policeman, lasted some 40 years...
...care for something more civilized, then take a few steps across Mass. Ave. and you'll find yourself across the Atlantic and in the Edwardian England of Bernard Shaw. The First Parish Church presents Love Among the English, a bouble-bill of Shavian one-acters. The plays portray battles between the sexes as only Shaw can portray them...
...proposing itself as a mediator in the current war, the U.S. is trying to portray itself as a neutral third party. Clearly, this is far from the truth. As U.S. corporate interests dictate that whatever changes take place be not too radical, Washington will only advocate minor changes. But the people led by the FSLN will continue to fight until the entire National Guard is defeated and dismantled, and a new national army that really represents and protects the interests of the Nicaraguan people is formed. Until that day, Nicaragua will remain a tiny country caught in the clutches...
...Leakey focuses his argument to refute the likes of American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, Nobel prize-winner Konrad Lorenz, Raymond Dart--discoverer of the first Australopithecene. Robert Audrey--author of The Territorial Imperative and The Hunting Hypothesis, Desmond Morris--author of the Naked Ape and other who try to portray ancient man as the vicious truncheon-toting caveman caricatured in comic strips. Leakey contends that such aggressive people could never have survived--they would have killed themselves off. To the contrary, man has succeeded precisely because he has learned to cope with his fellow...
Beyond its narrative difficulties, Vicki Polon's screenplay still leaves a lot to be desired. Polon is no wit, and her attempts to portray such overly familiar New Yorkers as SoHo art dealers, pushy cab drivers and Greenwich Village hipsters fall flat. Hot issues like lesbianism and abortion are dragged into the action for cheap effects rather than serious consideration. There is not a single memorable or startling line in the movie...