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...Uffizi's Medici Venus, because Jefferson longed to install a copy of her at Monticello. Not having been to Florence, he had never seen the original, which he knew through engravings and plasters. It is pleasant to see the Towneley Vase, that once renowned Attic mar ble of the 1st century A.D. on which Keats based several lines of Ode to a Grecian Urn. But Jefferson never saw it, and (as the catalogue admits) would probably have disliked the "licentious mysticism" of its Bacchic figures...
...movie version of Cuckoo 's Nest is faithful to the external events of the novel−no complaints there. The tro ble is that it betrays no awareness that the events are subject to multiple interpretations. Jack Nicholson plays Mc Murphy as an unambiguously charming figure, a victim of high spirits, perhaps, but without a dark side or even any gray shadings. He is a fine fellow to spend a couple of hours with, but he has no depth or resonance, and his fate leaves us curiously untouched. Similarly, the zany behavior of his fellows is amusing...
...pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along...
Loan Manager Noreen Lawless got together a list of unfilled menial jobs and began calling up her delinquent clients to offer them work. She had a lot of trou ble making people believe her. "They thought it was some kind of gimmick," she says. "They never had a bank offer to help them out before...
Like Zen. Like Alice, Ellen confesses that she was movie-afflicted early on. "It's just in the past six or seven years," she says, "that I've started to find out how I would act if I were not Betty Gra-ble." With a vision of herself as a composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit...