Word: astounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to concentrate on the intelligence and shrewd stratagems which Marlowe uses to overcome denizens of the closed frontier; he doesn't give us in his film any alternative to lifestyles within California society. He wants us to take the evil of the present world as a given, and astound us with American society's mercurial ability to gloss over mercenary treachery and murder. It is a valid view of California, but a cheap apocalypse. Altman simplifies the story so much that the motives of all his characters except Marlowe are mystifying--and this new Marlowe himself is not interesting...
...broke, Karl at last hit on the magic combination of mirrors that had eluded other inventors who had thought of the same basic idea. He bought a '61 white Corvette, built a new top for it, incorporating the mirror, and drove it down to Los Angeles expecting to astound the world. It was indeed a wonderful mirror, making driving many times safer and easier. But all Karl got was one small article in the Los Angeles Times. Then he tried writing letters to all the Senators and Congressmen he had heard of and to 17 federal agencies. Nothing happened...
...wife-cousin, start with nothing but the vehemence of their blood. They soon make Macondo into a strange oasis in the orchid-filled jungle, a primitive, otherworldly place resonant with songbirds, where there is no death, no crime, no law, no judges. The only outside visitors are gypsies, who astound the residents with magnets, false teeth, telescopes, ice and a flying carpet...