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...history, a darkly tragic group. Worse, the film falsifies many of the known facts about Fields in an attempt to create a conventional rags-to-riches show-biz saga. Even Steiger finally goes soft, hinting that a pagliaccio was hiding behind the bulbous nose and the rasping whine-an insight neither Fields nor his friends are on record as entertaining...
Tumin said that the purpose of the program in to provide "insight into the processes of both institutions...
...nothing more than memories of William P. Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil of everyday life. Whether you believe in possession and the devil or not, Martin presents a chilling look at people stripped of their humanity...
...connection between a certain style of narration and the presence of a functionalist, organicist social theory in George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both devices in a need to repress consciousness of social and sexual conflict, an insight which carries over to similar social theories in our own time, and was also able to resolve a misunderstood plot in one of her stories...
Diehl is referee nonpareil while combing a puckish candor and scholarly insight into the game. He is supervisor of officials for all of New England and has served on the board of directors and as president of the Collegiate Basketball Officials Association (CBOA...