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Needless to say, there are all sorts of potential ambushes. Already febrile, Tony is sent to a strife-torn African country, representing Britain there "as a hole might represent a bucket." During an interview with an imprisoned black hero, Tony mouths bromides about using prisons as universities. At a subsequent party he rides a bike into a swimming pool. After recuperating from a broken arm and a fragmented psyche, he goes back to England, formally leaves Elizabeth and politics...
...drives across the southern U.S. in a $6,500 souped-up orange Pontiac sports car, the character called "GTO ' picks up half a dozen strays. As each hitchhiker gets into the bucket seat beside him, GTO shrewdly sizes him up and, chameleonlike, takes on a completely new identity, one that he hopes will impress his listener. Spinning out fantasies about imaginary pasts, GTO becomes by turns a gambler, a television producer, a racer, a war hero. The role of GTO in the movie Two Lane Blacktop calls for virtuoso acting, and gets it-from a 43-year-old veteran...
...nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later...
...they haven't done the job, and now they are going home. It's unbelievable. Fine, we will put out the fire ourselves, but you have taken the water, the pump and the ladder with you. Once we knew how to put out these fires with bucket brigades, but now we are used to your technology, and you are taking it away. Many people believe things were better in 1961 than they are today. There were no motorcycles then, few radios. Now the people are making more money and there is more democracy, but the morality...
...insists on the last laugh. If the human condition is a melancholy joke, he implies, then death is its punch line and hilarity the only proper response. The film maker pretends to have no "message" in The Clowns; when an actor asks him the meaning of his film, a bucket drops over the director's head in mid-reply. But absurdity itself is a commentary. It is also the perpetual delight of this indelible, grieving comedy in which the viewers, Pierrots and Augustes all, are the stars...