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...pivotal question of the film is insanity. How is it to be distinguished from that tolerated margin of eccentricity that is the privilege of the English upper classes? Further, the film shrouds its critique in a caricature of family life amidst the aristocracy...
...HAGGARD, HONEY-HAIRED 37-year-old mother of seven children spoke to me last July in the locker room of a Catholic boys' school in the Andersonstown section of Belfast. She chose the locker room not as a secret meeting place safe amidst the bombs and bullets of the Troubles, but because it happened to be where she and her children lived at the time. Theresa McGinnis slept on a canvas camping cot beside the entrance to the showers and her children slept on the benches between lockers, abandoning them for the floor after falling off a few times...
...pistol shot cracked, the prisoner sagged and fell, breath rattling, a tiny hole in his shirt pocket. Holstering his .45, the lieutenant began to explain -in good English-that the fallen Ranger had pitched a grenade at his marines. He deserved to die. The prisoner lay on the ground amidst the debris of battle-spent brass, empty ration cans, cabbage leaves, broken glass. He was still alive, his eyes open but no longer seeing. One marine took off his own tattered boots and began to strip the dying man of his. Five minutes later the prisoner died, expression frozen, feet...
...Ireland newscast (which is not heard in Britain) begins with an overnight casualty report-a chilling recitation of bombings, shootings, killings. It ends with the day's diary of local events-choral-society meetings, flower shows, agricultural competitions-all testifying that some normal life does go on, even amidst the violence...
...point in the afternoon, someone climbed up one of the flagpoles around the Washington Monument and tore down a flag. He was quickly followed by others, who tore down the remaining flags and set them afire amidst cheers. Some, seated closer to the speaker's platform, expressed their disapproval...