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Some ski maneuvers and pursuits through the mountains here reminded me of the underwater sequences in Thunderball: figures keep gliding around in strange, ethereal patterns -- supposedly bellicose, but seemingly choreographed. Identities blur hopelessly...
...Lest We Forget" sentiment, complete with a quote from William L. Shirer in the program notes. Such a sentiment is hardly enough to motivate a dramatic experience, and it is dangerous for other reasons, I think -- because of its tendency (in plays like The Diary of Anne Frank) to blur into something than can only be called nostalgia...
...sullen tropical sun beat down on Manila's Luneta Park, searing the faces of 200,000 Filipinos and a perspiring U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey. It glinted off the wave crests of Manila Bay and turned the green finger of Bataan into a quivering blur. U.S.-built jets of the Philippine Air Force bellowed past at palm-top level as President Ferdinand Marcos rose to deliver his inaugural address. The speech was as scorching as the heat...
...petition in domestic bankruptcy. His mistress and his casual office couchmates do not attest Maitland's sexual prowess but his inability to love. His daughter, listening to him with unresponding indifference, is an exact replica of his icy self-concern. The clients with interchangeable faces that blur before his desk are a dossier of sins he has committed, or, in the case of a homosexual, of a deviate impulse he may have suppressed. It is not surprising that his self-disgust and self-hatred prove contagious, and hat in the end everyone leaves him to stew...
...Crimean hospital, Alexander came across a dying army officer who closely resembled him, even down to a scar on the leg. When the soldier died, Alexander's physician allowed the body to decompose just enough to blur its features. Meanwhile Alexander took to his bed, ostensibly with malaria or typhoid. When the time was ripe, the corpse was brought up to the Emperor's room in a covered bathtub; Alexander was smuggled out the same way to a yacht belonging to the first Earl of Cathcart, former British Ambassador to Russia and a close friend of Alexander...