Word: caving
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...caves. What actually happens when Aziz and Adela separate from the rest of their party and go off alone to explore the remotest of them? This is the question that everyone, from humble English-lit student to magisterial critic, has been pondering since Forster published in 1924. All we know is that on the trek to them the conversation between man and woman drifts uncomfortably toward matters of the heart, that they enter different caves, that Adela becomes frightened and disoriented as the result of an echo she hears, and that suddenly she is stumbling hysterically back down the hill...
...merely "You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same." The other is Mrs. Moore, Adela's traveling companion, almost comically regal at some moments, uncannily vulnerable in others, but always touched by mystery as Peggy Ashcroft delicately plays her. Mrs. Moore enters only one cave, then reels out of it, having confronted her own mortality. Later, when people try to draw her back into the muddle to testify at Aziz's trial, she escapes by booking passage home: "Love in a church, love in a cave, as if there is the least difference...
Then there is the matter of the bouquet. Very early in the film Adela is given one by her fiancé as he welcomes her to Chandrapore. Very late in the film, the throbbing engines of a ship bearing Mrs. Moore homeward take on the tone and pitch of the cave's echo, and she dies. When she is buried at sea, an anonymous passenger throws a bouquet like Adela's into the water as the body slides under the waves. Echoes, echoes...
TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave firmly expressed his confidence in both Halevy and the disputed paragraph about Sharon. "I believe [the story] then and now," said Cave. Asked by Gould if he thought the Kahan commission had any reason to believe Sharon had anticipated the massacre, Cave said no. "I think if he had, it would have horrified him and he would have prevented it on the spot." Henry Anatole Grunwald, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., also stood firmly behind the article, stating that he saw "no particular contradiction between the paragraph and the Kahan commission report...
...Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath all the precision production and the surgically assured musicianship are messages of lyrical turbulence, full of fleet, elusive imagery that hangs in the air like a haunting. As the album's last song, Dancing with the Big Boys, reminds us, "Where there's trouble there's poetry...