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...announcing the award, worth $212,000, the Swedish Academy cited Milosz's "uncompromising clear-sightedness" in a world thick with moral and intellectual conflicts. This is the familiar yet urgent condition of the modernist tradition into which Milosz was thrust by history. As he wrote in Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait (1945): "Keeping one hand on Marx's writings, he reads the Bible in private./ His mocking eye on processions leaving burnt-out churches./ His backdrop: a horseflesh-colored city in ruins...
Judy happily signs away her freedom to Uncle Sam and the irony gets so thick you could cut it with a bayonet. The makers of Private Benjamin don't seem to realize that the military replaces marriage as the oppressive force in Judy's life. She swears to honor and obey the Army just as she made those same vows to her two husbands. Instead of mistreatment from someone she loves, Judy receives abuse--physical and mental--from a bunch of strangers in green uniforms. She's shoved, almost head-first, out of a bus; she's pummeled...
Says Duggan, "Just knowing that they were ranked 15th in the country, got us so up for the game, we just had to win it." Coupled with the UPenn triumph over Ivy League favorite Columbia, the Harvard upset thrusts the squad into the thick of the Ivy League race...
...would not take him to be one of the CIA'S top men. Indeed, he is now unrecognized even by the CIA, particularly a slick, thick deskman (Ned Beatty) who makes the mistake of canning Matthau or not sticking by the book when he breaks up a Soviet spy ring in Munich. Walter's revenge is what the rest of the film is about...
After all, the author never quite grew up. His prose style may have matured over four decades. But Bradbury, the benign father of four daughters who peers at the world through thick if not always rose-colored glasses, remains the quintessential boy, bemused by his ability to whip out a story (he does most first drafts in a matter of hours) and thrilled by his success. Most people lose the capacity for wonder as they grow older. Not Bradbury. "I'm one of the few people I know who still say 'Gee, whiz,' " he admits...