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...wonder that Menelaus doesn't look too worried about recapturing his wandering wife when the Greeks sit down to plot strategies--he knows that he has only to wait for the next scene change to take her in his arms and whisper sweet Grecian nothings into her ear...
...labeled Mary Mary Quite Contrary, and she still seems to delight in offering a chair for her subject, merely to yank it away at the appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts and can become very knowledgeable about them. This is much...
Screenwriter Arlen has a fine ear for Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
...rented a blue American Motors Eagle and headed for Vermont. In a motel in Bennington, he disassembled the .38 and later dumped it, along with his blue windbreaker, into a snowy woods. A week later he called his neighbor Myra Friedman. Goetz sought her help and her ear; he poured out his story in an anxious, confused monologue...
...impounded, Veliotis claims to be content in his luxurious villa, complete with rooftop swimming pool and garden, tucked into the hills overlooking Athens. "I have a very complete life here," says Veliotis, a heavyset man with beetling brows, a pencil mustache and a tiny hearing aid behind his left ear. "I now have the time to do all the things I wanted to do before...