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...calls out of the blue from small investors again." That is true to form. Says San Francisco Broker Harry Campbell: "The public buys on the basis of the Dow Jones hitting a year's high, what the neighbors say about their stocks, or some guy boasting at a cocktail party that he's made money on X-Y-Z company...
This is a sharp, jangled, slightly bemused assault on the indignities that capitalism inflicts on the worker, as well as a few other indignities that the worker turns against the bosses. The movie is angry but wry about it, indignant without being incendiary. It is less like a Molotov cocktail, say, than a water balloon...
...nothing has happened. But I come back and find not only journalists and commentators but some politicians rushing about like wet hens as though some devastating crisis had hit the country." He was particularly irked by U.S. Commentator Eric Sevareid, who, after a quick tour of "the kind of cocktail party circuit in the square mile of London where all the hot gossip occurs," had told his American television audience that Britain was "drifting slowly towards a condition of ungovernability" and "sleepwalking into a social revolution." This sort of talk, the Prime Minister complained, filtered back to England and scared...
...resolution to provide the conditions in which we can avoid-in five years if we stick to our present course-finding ourselves at the mercy of some cheap dictatorship, whether of the right or left." Harold Wilson would doubtless conclude that Professor Clegg has been attending too many cocktail parties in that gossipy square mile of London...
...onetime lover, the writer Eilert Luvborg (Patrick Stewart). Her wrath stems from the fact that she has betrayed her own Dionysian will to freedom. She is an older Nora who failed to slam the door on parochialism, co vention and hypocrisy. Jackson reduces all that to the level of cocktail-party sarcasm and suburban jitters...