Word: canteeners
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...Friday night, and the Owen family is assembled at the head table in the upstairs canteen for the "24th Annual Long Service Employees Dinner." Five men who had worked at Darlaston for 50 years receive gold watches, and John Owen gives a report to satisfy the employees' presumed curiosity about farflung members of the Owen family. Elizabeth's stepmother, he confides, has married a horse surgeon and is living in the U.S. Sister Grace and her husband David are down with the mumps. Wife Elizabeth has been let down by the babysitter and is very sorry...
...noon, Owen leaves the upstairs canteen that is used by company officers−a large, spare uninviting room with curtainless windows, bare walls and a small central cluster of tables flanked by molded plastic chairs. He heads downstairs to the lower canteen, a far livelier place, where he is to have his picture taken while handing out first-aid certificates to a group of apprentices. The photographer poses Owen this way and that, trying to make him look comfortable among the long wooden benches packed with men who are loudly joking their way through hearty 500 meals. A few workers...
...decorative pattern breaks up the surface. It volatilizes what once was solid, rendering substance−bronze, stucco, tile or parchment−almost immaterial. This was no less true of relatively small objects like a 13th century Syrian canteen in silver inlaid brass (see color page), with its elaborate conflation of Islamic and Christian imagery arranged in dense concentric bands, than of vast architectural projects like the tile-work of the Alhambra in Granada. It is hard−perhaps impossible−to hold the entire pattern in one's mind, even when looking...
...Paul Sartre, 69, felt encouraged enough to take a firsthand reading of the Portuguese revolution. During a 15-day visit to the country with his longtime friend, Author Simone de Beauvoir, 67, Sartre chatted with writers and students, toured a factory and dined in Lisbon's Red Barracks Canteen with the Light Artillery Regiment, most radical of Portugal's revolutionary forces. Despite his antimilitarism, Sartre seemed thoroughly reconciled to the Portuguese army, which, he said, "is not like any other" since it represents all classes of society. The diminutive existentialist was less cheered by some of the Portuguese...
...sense distills the sense of Gatsby, and Carroway's values--the superior morality of the Midwestern small town Christian conscience, the nostalgia for the old American orders under eclipse--judge West Egg. But this movie doles out portions of the narrative like a mess sergeant in an army canteen, everybody gets some: Mr. Gats gets some of Carroway's, Carroway is made to speak what had been silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery, the shining shots like shiner punches at Fitzgerald. And it fumbles...