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...seen the movie and filled out questionnaires, which are studied by Hollywood executives with the same kind of eager dread White House aides must feel when they pore over the latest Gallup. Even the best and most independent directors find audience reaction helpful: Stanley Kubrick first filmed a wild custard-pie fight between the Americans and the Soviets as a final scene for Dr. Strangelove, but after several previews, he changed his mind and ended the movie with Major "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) riding bronco on the bomb...
...scum and heaps epithets on him like offal. His father (Roger Serbagi) does not hate Benno, but one minute is about the attention span of his concern, so it comes to the same thing. Denied, neglected, degraded by everyone he turns to, Benno devours ice cream and cups of custard and fulfills his own prophecy: "I am eating myself to death...
...dangerous animal" with "steely" muscles, eyes "like shards of splintered glittering glass" and a contemptuous conviction that "all women are whores at heart." Marisa, the heroine, is a "strange mixture of defiant child and mysterious woman" with "dark-gold curls [and] panther eyes" -not to mention a will of custard. Dominic and Marisa meet on page 42. On page 62 he rapes her. On page 86 he ties her to a bedpost and assaults her again. On page 192 the hero rips the heroine's gown to the waist before raping her a third time. On page...
Trying to make the presidency work these days is, as they say down South, like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie. Faith and forgiveness-and a politician's savvy-may yet see him through...
...challenge to authority that is now upon us can strengthen and renew institutions as much as it can weaken them. And it can be fun. There is always room, as George Orwell wrote, 'for one more custard...