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...might be argued that comedy must involve a collapse of measured behavior. But the breakdown is possible within the style. If you don't believe it, see Lithgow, Norma Levin, as Mariane, and James Shuman, as Valere, also managed their humor without many extraneous notes. Their love scene was lovely...
What it doesn't do, and what a well-designed set and clever soundtrack can never do, is make you believe it. Though the film is largely shot from the girl's viewpoint, we share her imagination and not, alas, her thoughts. The only sense of breakdown stems from her increasingly lurid hallucinations: walls turn to putty or open in great cracks; hands poke through to feel her breasts, and rapists wait patiently in her bed. Photographed in deep shadow, often with a swinging camera, such scenes look old-fashioned and crude. Films have developed more sensitive means of conveying...
...middle span, people whose vote, regardless of nominal party affiliation or inclination, is changeable. This consensus shuns rigidly doctrinaire extremes that have brought upon the system its most tragic failures, notably the Civil War. British Political Scientist Denis Brogan points out that "the immediate cause of the greatest breakdown of the American political system was the breakdown of the party system, the failure of the party machinery and the party leaders to remember their national function, which, if carried out, was the justification of the varied weaknesses and absurdities of the party organizations and policies. Not until the party system...
...find one who drove fast enough. She invited the U.S.C. football squad to scrimmage with her on her lawn-at midnight. She privately bathed in imported perfume, publicly pondered whether to succumb to the ardor of Director Victor Fleming or Gary Cooper, until indecision brought on a nervous breakdown. A jilted Yale football player who slashed his wrists was given a sanity hearing and released after he told the court that Clara had kissed him so forcefully that his lips ached for two days...
...questioning our soldier's fighting ability, nor his courage or conviction. Rather, in their haste to indicate their abhorrence and hate of war they mistakenly attack the symptoms of war (Marines arriving by train in San Francisco for embarkation to Vietnam) instead of attacking the causes of war (breakdown of diplomacy and communications; ignorance and poverty; charismatic and poor leadership; adherence to diehard, hard-line communism; desire for the better things of life which the normal and present channels of growth can not immediately provide...