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...WHEN YOU SHOOT in elephant, he sometimes stays 10 days on his feet before topping over," a character declures near the begining of Fitzearruldo. With this hit of incident dealogue, the German director Wener Herzog has hit open a sadly apt metaphor forhis new film. Over a 21/2 hour stretch of celluloid, Fitzearruldo lurches and becomes like some Teatonic pachyderm. Drunk on its own significance it dies at our feet collasping under its own weight...
...second attempt, "Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil"--which followed what is considered to be King's best novel. The Shining--proves even worse. Devoid of the usual terror, the story's potential is overwhelmed by a contrived situation and hackneyed plot. In "Apt Pupil," King relates the tale of an All-America-honor-roll-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-12-year-old corrupted in a relationship with an ex-Nazi war criminal. The imagery is suggestive, and the sense of an almost unholy irreverence--the juxtaposition of good and evil--is affective. But the application of his powerful in might...
...found instead such derisive phrases as "princess of an amusement park" and "suppressed clucks" in reference to her restrained but motherly defense of her children. And why describe 15,000 carnations as being "dumped" on her bridal yacht from a plane when the word showered would have been more apt...
...kinship to Oscar the Grouch than to their own cantankerous Uncle Oscar? Are they video zombies, listless and lethargic while viewing, revved up like the roadsters on The Dukes of Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many of the same symptoms apply. Adults, however, are far more apt than children to deceive themselves about their own TV compulsion. Like alcoholics, says Wilkins, adults hooked on TV tend to underestimate their dependency. Wilkins' method of kicking the habit is like the old-fashioned way of losing weight: eating less. The first step, as with overcoming any addiction...
...readers the task of puzzling them out. They short-circuit thought, plugging directly into prefabricated images. And they are by no means limited to young characters. The narrator of The Body, Gordon Lachance, shares King's age, 34, and occupation: he is a "bestselling novelist who is more apt to have his paperback contracts reviewed than his books." He tells of an adventure he had in 1960, when he was twelve; he and three friends set out to discover the body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine. He gives...