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...great tragedies present American politics, said, is that the "future of humanity is treated as an enormous pork barrel in which Senators and Congressmen try to get good for their constituents...
...quaint notion is that they all love one another, and that a month's vacation together on the West Coast will help them show it. They get to a crumbling gingerbread monstrosity by the sea. It's a barrel-of-fun house, of course, with live-in bats and a pump that requires surgery. Before Dad can get the luggage stowed away ("My friends all call me Redcap"), his two married daughters show up with broody broods in tow. and in obvious need of a good divorce counselor. One little grandson, who seems to have been born under...
...which recorded with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy, style, and a less elastic blueprint would have done wonders...
When he learns of a no-good who spends all his family's relief money on booze, he solves the situation by supplying the man with liquor obtained drop by drop from empties rescued from a bar's trash barrel...
Rich Symbolism. The men make candles. With the abundant light comes madness-or perhaps, indeed, the aberration is sanity. They will not fight. Riglioni refuses to lead them. The colonel's aide tries to pry them from their cellar refuge and finds himself looking down the barrel of a Thompson gun. The blowhard captain arrives, sermonizes plaintively at the figures crouched around the huge, 9-ft. candles, and is told to take his precious behind back to headquarters. He leaves. The Germans counterattack. The men are killed...