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...weeks ago I went sailing with him on his ocean-going yacht, rapped with him, and simply observed the amazing Cohn milieu. He refuses to allow the threat of 36 years in jail and $41,000 in fines to interfere with the Real Roy's personal life...
...Françoise Mallet-Joris's observation is unusually wary and intense, perhaps because her creatures move in a society held rigid by theology where diabolism is as real as rock-a milieu not merely strange but very nearly incomprehensible to a mind formed in the 20th century. A modern student can read the documents-the witch-burners were articulate enough-but statistics and dry records are unlikely to convey to him any idea of the atmosphere that hangs for days, according to the author, in a town square after a witch has been burned. Is the smell...
...Hope's bar- "What is it? It's the No Chance Saloon. It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Cafe." -during the summer of 1912, it is quite easy to imagine Miller's Willy Loman as well as Albee's George and Martha in quite the same milieu. Iceman -along with the two more familiar war-horses of the American theatre-is suffused with the mist of many pipe dreams. Harry Hope, who hasn't stepped outside of his establishment since the death of his wife twenty years past, dreams of taking a "walk around the ward...
Unfortunately, that street and its milieu overshadow the relationships within. Trying to combat a basically melodramatic situation, Scorsese goes too far in the opposite direction. He diffuses the action badly, destroying a good deal of plot continuity, and overindulges in scenes with J.R. and his buddies that are of peripheral importance. The whole of the picture is less than the sum of its parts, many of which abound with vitality and cinematic invention. Scorsese choreographs his camera movements with an exhilarating, easy grace, and his dramatic use of rock 'n' roll (the film's title comes from...
...Harvards, inevitable. And so, after each holiday, you come back to your dorm. First, the radical from the mid-West says right after Christmas vacation, boy, I can't go back there again. Then after Easter recess, a lot more begin to realize that Cambridge is their real milieu. A few, perhaps, try a final summer at home, but it rarely works. They too flee back to Cambridge in panic. And so, one day, you suddenly hear yourself saying. "I've got to get home." And home means good old Harvard College. Cambridge, Massachusetts. And that...