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...bodies. Higher cultures do not make that organic assumption; they are haunted by the animal in man, by the idea of animals as their lower nature, the fallen part, the mortal. The clear blue intelligence of civilization, they think, is imprisoned in the same cell, the body, with its Caliban, the brute undermind...
...terribly true. What they fail to say is that unlike Caliban, Bernard is a monster of sly and surpassing charm, and, like Prospero, his magic wand is the English tongue. He ends a characteristic diatribe on the erosion of the English class structure with the observation that "soon there'll be more photographers than people to be photographed." On the effects of alimony, he reflects bitterly: "Idle men produced an age of elegance. Idle women merely multiply hairdressers...
Even leaving aside the nuclear Caliban, the future will have to be built by elaborately constructive conversations. The Third World's claims upon the First World's wealth, the rising global sense of entitlement, the abrasions of change on a crowded planet-all demand a high order of bargaining intelligence. Social solutions require space and resources (Go West! Enlarge the pie!) For many disputes and angers and injustices today, there are no solutions, only settlements...
...Caliban of the concrete wilderness, a tough-minded, quick-fisted, devilishly engaging city sprite, the first such in movie history and still, a half-century later, the best. One minute he would be walking the dark side of the mean streets, personifying the gangster as a tragically overreaching hero (The Public Enemy); the next he was to be found quickstepping on his jaunty dancer's pins along the sunny side, tapping out a dandy Yankee Doodle up tune. But it made no difference where he traded slick jabs and smart-mouthed gibes, for he always made it clear that...
...Caliban (Barry Miller) is depicted as if he were a punk-rock psycho, which scarcely suggests the "power of darkness...