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...craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that he expounds on an ancient tooth powder advertisement. No matter what guise he shows up in, Perelman's persona is a curious mixture of gallic pride, English cynicism, and mostly, Yiddish fatalism. He is a foil who ventures quixotically into the world and then returns, each time, to testify...
...NICHOLSON must be viewed as dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo, and to our ideal of an untarnished hero. He has energy. He has charm. His brittle smile can be the most unsettling experience in cinema. His characters seek the unanswerable. He can love and kill in a single breath. Like a glass time-bomb, intricate and wired, he is capable at any instant of erupting into wicked, verbal violence...
...same film--Bogart, Gable, Redford, Eastwood--Nicholson strives to delve into the human consciousness in unethical ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace and worldly violence are often inextricable...
...closer the encounter, the more important the obvious becomes. In a profoundly simple statement, Banda described the essence of soccer, "A goal is a goal. It counts no matter if it's a garbage goal, an easy goal, or a breath-taking one." Harvard survived the Ivy Tournament and has benefitted from the experience. The booters know what the Eastern challenge requires and know that they can rise to the occasion...
That so many Americans should be transforming their features, and futures, to compete for jobs and mates is a dramatic development after postwar rich living and the automobile had all but taken the country's breath (and legs) away. But America always had a weakness for do-it-yourself salvation and made