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Merrill, like Dante, is in the middle of the journey, and the lighted cerulean water becomes his Styx. At one poolside, supposed friends needle him with cruel remarks about his wife and daughters. A stop at another leads him into a party where he finds a piece of family furniture...
Given the tricky and unpolished style and the ultimate anticlimax of the plot, A Dandy In Aspic isn't half bad. Although Laurence Harvey's acting capabilities enable him to register only an emotional strain of the kind plainly treatable with low-level patent medicines advertised on television, several scenes...
Purge Scene. What they get for their $40 tuition is eleven 2½-hour seminars, including screenings and analyses of TV pilot films. Dozier also gives the floor to big-name guest lecturers whose castigations and confessions are reminiscent of scenes from Nurnberg or a Moscow purge. Screen Gems'...
"The decision Saturday came as no surprise," he added. "I'd viewed the January vote as an aberration--a dreadful situation that would soon be corrected."
"The leaders of the Third Reich (notably the SS, the core of the whole movement) really had taken Nietzsche seriously. So had large strata of the German educated class in general...How could a movement of this sort have gained power in a major European country? Dreadful though it is...