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...devil's prompter in Marge's mind, popping biting retorts in her mouth about the jeopardy of fame, and chilling qualms in her heart about her love affair with a younger director (Len Cariou). With serpentine guile and horizontal campaigning, Eve slithers her way upward toward Margo's coveted stardom. However, Margo salvages what counts most: her lover, plus the hard-won grace to acknowledge that even unscrupulous youth must be served...
...visitor ascends the rectangular ramps along the aquarium's walls, he passes the abodes of other amusing creatures: penguins. One species on display in the mock Antarctic environment is the so-called jackass penguin (named for its harsh bray). Proceeding upward, the visitor brushes past a large and almost frightening mural covered with life-size silhouettes of sharks. He joins the youngsters at the children's tidal pool -where they are encouraged to reach in and touch starfish, tiny crabs and harmless sea urchins. Finally, as he approaches the highest level, he walks under an awesome 35-foot...
Viewers-and the Satyricon's satyrs -periodically struggle upward toward the light, as if trying to wake from the sleep of reason. Unhappily, the light fails, for almost all the main characters are inept performers whose unmarked faces cannot register more than satiety and fatigue. The fault lies partly with the director. In the Fellini version, the actors literally performed by saying the numbers. "It was a multilingual cast," says the maestro. "So instead of having them speak dialogue, I often just had them count one, two, three." Hiram Keller, recruited from the Broadway production of Hair to play...
...just so happens that I came pretty damn close to being upward-backwards, which means 'toward valuerelativism and expression.' So get fucked...
...know what gives you the right to talk. D. Anybody who gets rated upward-negative-backwards, which Bales says means 'toward rugged individualism and gratification.' doesn't have much business telling other people...