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The opening moments of Memories are its finest. The credits flash over a kinetic, desperate dance sequence. The screen is crowded with faces; bodies whirl about to an African rhythm. There is, through all the noise and the music, the suggestion of a gunshot, and suddenly a lifeless body appears...
Berryman's final book of poems, Delusions, etc. points to this funny twist of Irony in his Belief. The book is mainly a series of daily prayers, some overwhelmingly joyous, many serious addresses to God. Only a few of these last poems are sad. But then there is the title...
While the announcer drones on about the minutes left to bet ("hurryhurryhurry" he says in a slurred voice), the hard-core lean over the fence, staring at the racing program. Every so often, they look up and stare blankly at the vacant track. As the race approaches, they wander off...
THE SHOTS I LIKE best are those when Malle catches the essence of something non-western, showing a way of life so different it could come from another planet. In a religious demonstration in Madras hundreds of worshippers pull an enormous chariot through the streets and thousands follow. Frantically everyone...
Virility. As a writer, Sheed can easily do a double back flip without spilling the wine in his glass. (He has dismissed book reviewing as a couple of insights and "a few simple waltz steps.") Unlike most stylistic acrobats, he is quite capable of writing a dozen plain sentences in...