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...glow of the firelight, of his wife, dying of cancer, lifting up her bony hand to him in pain and entreaty, of Jed himself holding a gun to the head of a German officer sneering "Heil Hitler!" The lingering force of these images is linked to the mode of narration; Jed tells his story--an odyssey which takes him from Dugton, Alabamaa to academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like his entire life, represents an attempt to come to terms with his roots, to discover...
...replaces feeling," he has one of his characters pronounce. "I say that style is feeling, and its most elegant, economical expression." Style is certainly Resnais's forte. The whole film is an elaborate, often stunning attempt to find cinematic metaphors for states of mind, to link color and narrative mode to psychological perceptions...
...chain of variations on the theme of grief," the author notes a brightening of atmosphere brought about by a transition from the minor to major key. Singers beware, he warns: "Things seem less desperate-but Schubert is not finished yet. By reverting to the acerbity of the original minor mode during the postlude, he rules out any possibility of self-indulgence or sentimental self-pity...
...last substantial U.S. playwright in this mode was Philip Barry, whose The Philadelphia Story is brought to mind by The New York Idea. Essentially, the New York idea is divorce and^ the notion that divorced couples can be amiable friends and chase after their respective ex-spouses. These propositions were as scandalous in 1906 as they are commonplace today. But the play lives because its humor has the pinpoint carbonation of champagne and a tipsily endearing bias toward romance...
...wasn't supposed to and I found out that the group was really the Unification Church. But I did not want to admit that there was anything wrong with that because I was enjoying it so much. It was very Marxist in a way, because you become the mode of production. Only you are doing all of your work for God and Moon...