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...explore, to take chances. Besides the direct presence of Price and his musicians, an idea that appears to derive directly from the stage and Anderson's considerable work in the theater over the past decade, the very rhythm of O Lucky Man! is unique, with scenes bridged by blank black frames and sometimes interrupted or punctuated by them. Without being fussy, the film has a reserved beauty, a nearly voluptuous grace, like the work of John Ford, a director Anderson especially admires (and whose picture hangs on the wall of the warden's office during a prison sequence...
There are several ways of skirting this disagreeable fact. The first is to remind oneself of Picasso's energy, which stayed with him right to the end. That in itself is impressive: Don Juan at 91, creakily fornicating with his succession of blank canvases, struggling and failing, but then struggling again to trans form the too compliant image into a shield against death...
...still had two years to go on a three-year contract, and Harvard, steeped in the tradition of frugality handed down from its Puritan founders, isn't in the habit of dismissing people whose contracts have not expired. Besides, it is painfully un-Harvardian to fire a coach point blank, and the Athletic Department has carefully cultivated a tradition for easing its athletic mentors out of the picture quietly when they are no longer wanted. So Harvard's sudden decision to relieve Harrison of his duties as ring master of the Crimson program came as quite a shock...
Waltzing up against dead ends, blank faces and loneliness, Malamud's people are fated to develop into the agonizing absurdity of his "Talking Horse." With the Jewish name of Abramovitz, this circus freak bears all the historical suffering and doubts of his race, as well as the unique dilemma of wondering whether he is "a man in a horse or a horse that talks like a man." Opting for the former, Abramovitz devises an act of his own in which he begs the circus audience to set him free from the body of a horse and the tyranny...
...into a passionate seeker after justice, repudiating a war he had helped plan, questioning the Great Society, testing the limits of liberalism. The napalm and the hungry children and the urban rubble had left their mark on this man. He had heard the chants of the demonstrators, seen the blank, glum stares of the unemployed, felt the smoldering anger that erupted at Watts and Detroit and Neward, Robert Kennedy, like many of us, searched for an answer...