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...generally good. Unfortunately, one sees a little too much of them. Rashomon achieves a natural conclusion approximately ten minutes before it actually flashes off the screen. The producers kept going in order to get across a moral meaning. Mistakenly, they did not realize that this moral was already implicit and that the final ten minutes only hammered it in crookedly...
...allegorical themes are developed during the stay in the tree house, the first of which deals with Dolly's spiritual regeneration, as her imaginative mind finds itself wholly in harmony with the new environment. Implicit in this theme is the conflict of the individual in a stereotyped society, and Capote has stacked the cards heavily. In the second act Capote also develops a contrast of different kinds of love, all of which form a coherent theory until the final scene, when they become muddled in a contrived denouement...
...make the implicit assumption that the Smoker's only excuse for existence is as a "get acquainted" party. We grant that there is really no point in a freshman "get acquainted" party in the spring. But actually the Smoker is really only an opportunity for Yardlings to get together for a good time...
...room apartment ("For years I've had one foot firmly planted there and kind of pirouetted on the other all over the world"), and his chief assistant is his sprightly, grey-haired mother. Explains Towers: "When you work with someone in your own family-why, then you have implicit trust...
Author Berto could easily have spoiled his book by sentimentalizing Michele into a hero of the oppressed, or by treating him merely as a vicious criminal. Instead, he has looked at him steadily with profound sympathy but also with implicit disapproval. The Brigand, as a social document, may help explain why many Italians have snapped at the Communist bait. As a novel, it is an honest and affecting picture of human beings in travail...