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...could hear the lords and ladies now from the grandstand, and could see them standing up to wave me in: "Run!" they were shouting in their posh voices. "Run!" But I was deaf, daft and blind, and stood where I was, still tasting bark in my mouth and still blubbing like a baby, blubbing now out of gladness that I'd got them beat at last. --From The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe...
Nymphs Cavorting. In one such segment, "The Cave," the stage is as loaded with animals as Noah's ark. Some are stuffed, some are simulated by actors (see cut), and some are real. Wilson is daft on animals, from ravens to ostriches, not excluding live dogs and sheep. In the cave the animals, cozy and docile, rest as if inhaling and exhaling the paradisiacal peace of Creation. Through the mouth of the cave, in bold, dazzling sunlight, we see girls bare to the waist, nymphs cavorting in primal innocence. Slowly, and with chilling ominousness, one wooden bar after another...
...dour, daft family, his rages, his uncomplaining wife ("He felt a drop in her interest when she seemed certain there was nothing much in it for her but pleasure"), his keen, cold eye, his utter isolation−they all unreel as episodes unreel by the roadside, bizarre but not unexpected...
THESE people-they're daft!" said a British Royal Fusilier private, at a Belfast checkpoint. No one from outside the six hate-scarred counties of Northern Ireland could disagree. Two weekends of rioting left a dozen dead, more than 300 wounded and at least 100 buildings destroyed. This week 100,000 Protestants are expected to march throughout the country in parades of the Orange Order, a religious-fraternal society that has been a seedbed of anti-Catholic sentiment for generations. More trouble seems virtually certain...
Brotherly Love is so bad a movie that O'Toole appears to be in almost continual spasm from beginning to end. Mired in the Scottish highlands, he plays a daft and decadent nobleman, improbably named Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, who has an unholy craving for his sister (Susannah York). After causing no end of mischief-including crippling Susannah's marriage and shooting his left ear off with a shotgun-poor "Pink," as sis calls him, is packed off to a genteel asylum run by a kindly doctor named Maitland. Cyril Cusack, the fine Irish character actor...