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Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...
Bemelmans moved to the U.S. in 1914, joined the Army and volunteered to work in a Government insane asylum. "I expected those people to stand on their heads and make funny faces," he recalls. "Instead, it was most depressing; it changed my whole life. I decided anything at all would be better than that." Since then he has been resolutely gay. He lives in Manhattan, explains that the city never gets him down "because I regard it as a curiosity; I don't let myself get caught in the wheels." Waving his arm at the cluttered little table where...
With Ste. Cunegonde as their patron, the Grey Nuns founded an asylum in Montreal's St. Henri tenement quarter in 1895. The grim, grey stone building was a haven for orphans and old people. The aged, living out their days on $25-a-month government pension checks, were lodged in bare upstairs rooms in the western side of the building; the children lived in the east wing...
...Wambling Stomach. Nearly a full year before the shot heard round the world, Lee was buzzing America's mission in the colonists' ears. "The generous and liberal of all nations turn their eyes to this continent as the last asylum of liberty . . ." Titles, he said, made him "spew," created a "wambling" in his stomach...
Sheeler was a philosophical sort. He had grown up in an orphan asylum, had become a depression road-kid, and-before he found a job-a petty criminal. He served his time quietly, although his wife had obtained records which proved he had been at work in New York on the night the policeman was shot in Philadelphia. But after seven years, when the cops failed to keep what he regarded as a solemn promise-to get him out after a short term-he began to fight...