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...shake our heads, our faces almost embarrassed in the presence of this violent blank: What is the text trying to teach us? This merciless--almost preposterous--pounding, these ingenious yet repetitive variations on the theme: they mean something, don't they? They've got to. Some cruelly overwritten sermon on Old Joe's hubris? There must be a secret beneath the surface, down there, full-fathom five, beneath the choppers and clatter of media...
...text was negotiated carefully, word-by-word, and I think that had a cautious tone," he said. "It could only provide as much information as the union and University could agree on the wording...
...text was negotiated carefully, word-by-word, and I think that had a cautious tone," he said. "It could only provide as much information as the union and University could agree on the wording...
...horrifying dream adventure the night before, is that "no dream is only a dream" just as no one night symbolizes all "reality." It's a direct quote from the last page of Schnitzler's novella--a very sad example of Kubrick's uneven adaptation of the text...
Although he is known as a self-absorbed dictator, Giuliani would be only an average blowhard in the Capitol, so I find him more charming than his press clippings. He speaks without a text, makes his own calls, never goes off the record. We stop for lunch, and he puts a $20 bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike...