Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Joyce, Strick doesn't follow a conventional, chronological narrative line. We are accustomed to flash-backs, but not to such brief flashes as those Strick introduces in his first scene: at the Martello tower, Buck Mulligan says "The aunt thinks you killed your mother," and Stephen sees, and we see, his mother's deathbed, an image that recurs in the drunken hallucinations of Nighttown. Except for Resnais's films, we are not at all accustomed to flash-forwards, and Strick uses them liberally: as Bloom leaves home in the morning, he imagines Blazes Boylan, his wife Molly's lover...
Strick, or his scriptwriters, must also be commended for the judicious selection of dialogue fragments here. Often, in Bloom's imaginings, single faces fill the screen as they thunder a brief phrase, then vanish and aren't heard from again. We have seen a bit of this in Lester's The Knack, but how much more delightful to have such phrases be Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born...
...staff, who announced that a "royal decree" had suspended eleven articles of the Greek constitution?even though Constantine was asleep in bed when the coup took place. The army won support from the navy and air force, and the military set out to form a new government. In a brief and simple ceremony, the new rulers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Archbishop and Primate of Greece. To show his disapproval, King Constantine did not attend the ceremony, refused to take to the radio to address the people...
...temperatures high enough to kill any earthly bugs. In any event, the report says, there is little chance that organisms entrapped within solid structures in the spacecraft could work their way free. Thus it is important only to kill microorganisms on the exposed surfaces of the spacecraft either by brief heating or by poison gas, neither of which would be harmful to conventional spacecraft systems...
Ulysses got away with it (as did Zorba the Greek and Georgy Girl) because the buttocks in question were male. "A brief shot of a male derriere is not going to present a problem to a normal individual," he said. But exposure of the female rear, added Father Sullivan, is "pruriently" stimulating...