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...Ah, I shall not return, not return...
...four enemy troops determined to appropriate the spoils of war. Suddenly a figure in white leaps down from an overhanging bluff, saving the young marquise's honor and perhaps her life. The savior takes the distraught marquise to safety and receives her father's effusive thanks. Sound familiar? Ah, but there's a twist. The smitten young officer takes the marquise's honor himself, while she is in the depths of opium-induced slumber. For the next two hours or so, Rohmer and Kleist provide us with an object lesson in the ways in which rigid social and religious mores...
...Ends and Odds is gray, a bleak miasma that convinces one character that "the earth must have got stuck, one sunless day, in the heart of winter." This backdrop accentuates the odd, vaudevillian turns that Beckett still keeps in his repertoire. He tosses off one-liners with apparent ease: "Ah, Morvan, you'd be the death of me if I were sufficiently alive!" His precise stage directions insist that props misfire with exquisite timing. He can make a character comment on a bit of stage business while implying a condemnation of life: "This gag has gone on long enough...
Gilmore detected perfume on Amber Jim's next letter and remarked on it. They continued comparing views on boxing. Amber Jim's favorite fighter was not Rocky Marciano but Muhammad Ah'. Gilmore insisted on Marciano, then added that he was starting a bank account for her and putting in $500. He also bought her a ten-speed bike. And a book on Muhammad Ali. "I will always love you honey. You're a beautiful wonderful little girl ... Knock 'em all out. For me. Hugs and kisses, xxoooxxxo...
...Ah, now, that's not to say there aren't problems, bad ones. I've reported on the Chicano movement in the southwest on and off the last seven years, and the gains are slow and frustrating. Institutions, by their very nature, move slowly at best...