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Personal revenge is still an acceptable motivation in an action movie. But Bronson is not looking for his wife's murderers, though they are so manifestly weird that any reader of Dick Tracy would have a fair chance of finding them. No, he has become an abstract symbol of quick justice in a setting where every bit player is careful to complain that the courts are too slow, the cops too dumb. Moreover, he quickly becomes a pop-cult hero, photographed against magazine posters acclaiming the salutary effect his work is having on the crime rate. Even the police...
...over and over in different pieces for different magazines without anyone really noticing. When the pieces are collected in book form, however, all of the writer's laziness and over-facile devices come out in the wash, and he can end up seeming much less thoughtful than a reader of his articles as they appeared would have remembered...
...Mishima writes with a powerful insight of the problems of man's relationship to the world and to reality. The clarity of his perception is stunning, as the various characters of the book unfold their complex metaphysical relationships. Long passages describing intense self-scrutiny hold the reader in an almost morbid fascination, until he must be relieved at the end to see Honda give up his vain attempts at understanding...
...reader is meant to see the lifted eye brow and to smile. Then he is meant to see the sober truth of the statement be hind its mockery. Then the mockery be hind that sobriety and so on. What lies deeper, the mockery or the truth? It is a rare comic writer who can raise the question, and Kundera...
...born of an admirable zeal to avoid mouthing hypocrisy and cant. On the other hand, cynicism-or la belle indifference, as Muggeridge would have it-can be a pose too. For the fact implicit in the very act of writing his autobiography is Muggeridge's assumption that the reader will find neither his life nor his account of it a waste of time. And he is right on both counts...