Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson freshmen smothered Deerfield Academy, 15-6, Saturday for their second straight victory. Attackman John Ince threw in six goals and assisted on another, and Paul Bloom tallied five...
Sunday, April 9 NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "The Questions," a stream-of-conscience play by John Hawkes that centers on a woman's choice of coming to grips with reality or facing emotional oblivion. Fritz Weaver and Verna Bloom are featured...
...images as a lecturer uses slides: simply to illustrate what is being said. Often the illustrations are inept. Joyce was half blind, and his Dublin is a city dimly seen but fantastically imagined. Strick's Dublin, however, is the ordinary place that shows up on postcards-even when Bloom sinks into parodic delusions of grandeur, the images in his fantasies remain invincibly normal and unexciting. The images, in effect, are afterthoughts; the film is essentially a book that several people are reading aloud...
...jokes, among them Molly's assertion that oral sex practices can cause a woman to grow a mustache. As for the people who read the roles, most of them are recruited from the Abbey Theater, and they ring true as Irish shillings-particularly Actor O'Shea, whose Bloom is an ironic portrait of a man who doesn't quite know his place but continually gets...
Many of the best parts of Joyce's book are missing. Since Strick has only 140 minutes at his disposal, he devotes most of it to the principal episodes: Stephen's soliloquy on the beach, Bloom's trip to Paddy Dignam's funeral, Bloom's brangle with the one-eyed Fenian in Kiernan's pub, Bloom's meeting with Stephen at Buck Mulligan's brawl, the nocturnal visit of Bloom and Stephen to Bella Cohen's brothel, Molly Bloom's magnificent end-spurt of soliloquacity...