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Marianne's romantic illusions hinge on her idea of straight talk. In her marriage at the start of the film, she thinks it comes from fidelity: commitment breeds honesty. But when Johan ups and goes it's clear any commitment there was had bred nothing. For her affair by the new rules with her ex-husband, at the end of the film, she has a new line: "telling the truth now...because we make no demands." Her myth is that if only people didn't talk in a babel of lies they would love in a smooth, enduring...
Carey had all the attributes of a winning New York candidate. Brooklyn-born and bred, he had the genial but "don't tread on me" demeanor of the neighborhood Irish bartender. A Roman Catholic widower with a dozen children, he was at home with the city's ethnic denizens who ask, above all, that they not be looked down upon. At the same time, he was acceptable to the city's liberals, the imperial custodians of party affairs. Though he served Brooklyn's most conservative district, he maintained a relatively liberal voting record. Besides, after more...
...person taking himself completely apart, cutting himself off from the conditions that bred him. He runs out of money, and is forced to go out on the street. He takes a factory job in Elmira, and becomes a regular at a bar, still in limbo. At the pool table he gets to know one of the fellows who struts in every day with a group of loud and dirt-streaked worked wearing hardhats and carrying toolbelts. They are ironworkers. After some time they take him to see "Jack...
...Allez France, 4, has a habit or two that unnerves her owner, Art Dealer Daniel Wildenstein. One of them is the heart-stopping way she runs a race, loafing along until the head of the stretch, then roaring past the field in a powerful thrust. Last week American-bred Allez France beat the best thoroughbreds Europe had to offer in the 1%-mile Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, winning $296,500 and becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez...
Claude, Belgian-bred but a naturalized American, laid the foundation for modern cell biology with his work at Rockefeller U. between...