Word: clues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coating all this, giving it a hard shiny surface in which we can see ourselves, making the ground under our feet so slippery we can't stop our crazy progression from clue to clue, is an icy cynicism. The detective's ultimate values are never really cynical--if they were he'd be the criminal and not the detective, whether he's Margaret Rutherford playing Agatha Christie's insufferable Miss Marples or Alec Guinness playing Chesterton's quaint Father Brown or Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade explaining, after Miles Archer's murder, that you have a duty to your partner...
...Scenes like this are unchanging and final. When Harry Lime suddenly appears on the second story of a bombed-out building, standing in a shroud of a black overcoat, robed and stiff like the ragged statue propped beneath him to the left, he is more than a clue or an answer in a mystery--he is what crawls out from under the rock when the world is destroyed. This is the kind of moment that makes The Third Man worth seeing over and over again...
...that the liberals were on the wrong track in trying to reconstruct the teachings of a historical Jesus. Schooled in the thought of Martin Heidegger and Sören Kierkegaard, Bultmann was convinced that the Christian message, or kerygma (from the Greek "proclamation"), must be something more existentially powerful. One clue to the message, he thought, lay in the beliefs of the first Christian communities where the Gospel was preached, and their perception of Christ from their own situation in life...
...back you could visit a college and hear the same record wafting out of a thousand windows. Whether it was personal and indulgent music like Neil Young and James Taylor, or whether it was wired music like the Stones, with something to say collectively, the open windows were a clue to the pulse of the place. Music meant something, people talked about it; they defined a part of themselves together through what the musicians were communicating. Now people go to their rooms and put on god knows what, and popular music is a detached activity again...
Some of the townspeople think that Lady's secret cost more to get out than it's worth. It was, after all, only a case of the butler's doing it. Over the years, whenever Lady felt bad or Woody was hot on a new clue, you could count on the rest of us catching grief. To dramatize such things, Mr. Tryon scheduled a hurricane, a flood and the Dutch elm disease. Not to mention yearly blizzards of cliches. But the wisdom that Lady revealed to Woody strikes some people as priceless. "Man is made to suffer...