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...minuscule $60,000 budget from family and friends (with the aid of an Oxford alumnus. Director John Schlesinger, who helped get production equipment at a discount), has achieved a perfectly glittering surprise on its first try. Indeed the film is flawed at its center by an unattractive protagonist named Edward, an oversmart, oversmug womanizer and all-around user of people, who is supposed to summarize all that is wrong with traditional Oxford attitudes. In this role Robert Woolley does the nasty bits well, but mostly leaves out those moments of charm and vulnerability that might have evoked real sympathy...
...hackneyed subject in a unique and sensitive manner. Instead of focusing on the survivors themselves and their inability to go on living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither of Susan's parents are able to release themselves from their world of guilt...
...protagonist of her newest novel A Severed Wasp, the retired pianist Katherine Forrester Vigneras, last appeared as an aspiring teenage artist in L 'Engle's first published novel. The Small Rain. "I always knew I would go on and find out what happened to Katherine later in life," she says, "but I had to grow up enough to find out first." The same half whimsical treatment of her creations carries through to the minor characters, such as one Felix Bodeway who becomes Katherine's closest friend in A Severed Wasp after playing a decidedly tangential role in her youth...
...report. Fragments from spies, diplomats, generals and businessmen are eagerly collected and fitted into the giant mosaic that American experts are assembling. As Ronald Reagan prepares to do psychological battle over the deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe, no task is more important than understanding the mind of this protagonist...
...BEST of Red All Over is "chicken song." In the style of a mellowed-out Blondia under a reggae influence, the group proves its versatility with a sorrowful song which mourns, "No chicken today," The protagonist awakes to this dreadful state, accompanied by the best horse, dog and chicken pounds civilized man has yet produced. Young laments, "All my chickens, they all run away" and the background vocals swell in a dirge of sympathy. The hero returns to a dinner of pork and beans--as obvious symbol of the heartbreaking compromises of modern life...