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HARAKIRI. A gory, sometimes tedious, sometimes beautiful dramatic treatise on an old Japanese custom: ritual suicide...
...Paul." For Paul VI is an intellectual who likes to consider things long and hard from both sides, frequently has difficulty in making up his mind. And so it is with Ecclesiam Suam (His Church, meaning Christ's), the first two words of the encyclical, which by church custom become its title. In paragraph after paragraph-and Paul himself suggested that the encyclical might ultimately become most celebrated for its length-the key word seemed...
Communist officials have made motions to discourage the clandestine commerce. The number of Polish custom guards has been trebled, and Czech police now even dismantle entire automobiles. But it is obvious that the Red regimes do not care too much so long as a citizen does not make a career out of contraband. The maximum prison term for smuggling is 15 years, but violators rarely get anywhere near that much. Smuggling, after all, relieves some of the growing pressures in Eastern Europe for more and better consumer goods, which the satellite economies so far have proved almost incapable of providing...
...these stories, Cozzens seems to have dismissed the rebel in favor of a celebration of the structure itself. Human life, bearable at best, is seen as unbearable and detestable when its natural savagery, passion and poetic lunacy are unconstrained by custom or civilizing institution. This view is seldom given a voice in fiction-even in realistic fiction of Cozzens' unfashionable kind. When institutions are matched against idiosyncrasy, writers have a temperamental bias in favor of the private sensibility...
...Angie Dickinson. Playing the tawny, amoral triplecrossing swinger who lures Cassavetes from auto racing to a life of crime, Angie isn't a subtle actress. But she somehow suggests to every male in the audience that this is a girl more inviting, and more dangerous, than a custom Ferrari idling on a fast track...