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...passengers of heavy luggage before it was put aboard. West German police meticulously inspected each item, Israeli-style, in every passenger's luggage. Major airports located near international waters, including New York's Kennedy and Boston's Logan, were asked to patrol for any suspicious-looking craft capable of firing rockets. In addition, Lufthansa jetcraft followed new flight patterns. In West Germany the planes were often given runway changes at the last minute...
...that no one-not even the semi-tough-minded among us-is immune to the absurdities of ideologies that hold out a promise of instant salvation. On a slightly deeper level, the movie is warning us to beware celebrities bearing false prophecies. Because of the absorption in self and craft that their work requires, performers-be they actors or athletes-can be easy converts, and therefore untrustworthy in their wayward enthusiasms for abstract realms. On the more positive side, the picture suggests that if salvation is to be had, it lies in that pragmatic resistance to the con that...
...identical technically and in mood to his turn-of-the-century vista of Evian. In an age when one is accustomed to an artist's regular reappraisal and redirection of his own work, this continuity is rather a surprise. It is almost as if Binet, having once perfected his craft, spent the rest of his life hermetically sealed away from the explorations of his contemporaries. It seems ironic that Impressionism--itself a traditions of mid-19th century art--should be the vehicle for this man's repeating for fifty years the same kind of radical challenge to the etiquette-formal...
Shuttling between illusion and reality, the pair is never offstage. Perhaps no actor ever is. John and Robert display the vanities and insecurities of their craft, the exhilaration and the stomach-pit dread, the droll nuances of paying insults in the guise of compliments. The play may perhaps come too close to shoptalk...
...artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship, a fantastic poet's girl, a sort of corn-goddess." Of her marriage to Dylan, Caitlin wrote in Leftover Life to Kill, "We lived...