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...saddened to read of the dismissal of William M. ("Fishbait") Miller, the doorkeeper for the House [Dec. 16]. I remember, as will many Americans under similar circumstances, meeting Fishbait in his office. We were educated, entertained and humbled by the history and stories expounded by him. He was a delight...
...attitudes-they might collectively be called punk psychotic-that animated the recent French film Going Places (TIME, June 10). Both movies share the same craving for shock value, the same dim idea that freedom and aggressive irresponsibility are the same. Going Places, however, remained anxiously airy throughout. In Turkish Delight, Director Paul Verhoeven and Writer Gerard Soeteman try to yank the rug right out from under the middle of the film, suddenly portraying everything that had seemed gay as a fierce and desperate stall against fate...
...respectful notices that this film received after its initial U.S. opening in Los Angeles are puzzling enough, but it has nowhere been noted that Turkish Delight represents a particularly vicious fantasy of sexual retribution. The wife cuts out on the husband-because he likes to copulate too much, she tells him later-and leads a miserable life, moving from one lover to another, looking freakier and acting freakier. The tumor, presumably, is the final punishment for her infidelity and desertion, and allows her wronged husband the priceless opportunity to be magnanimous, to forgive and to cherish. Her death gives...
...been present at the closing scene of some dramatic spectacle," as indeed, in Turner's view, they had: What more vivid image of the punishment of English hubris could he have asked for? All Turner is in his view of the conflagration: it is the essence of his delight in elemental conflict-fire raging in the clear mirror of water, its ruddy glow drifting west across a night sky cool as china...
...shades of Freud and Jung, of magic, myth and racial memory, now hover (drearily or provocatively, depending on one's point of view) around any collection of the Brothers Grimm. There is no need to be owlish, however, about the clear fact that fairy tales address with considerable delight some persistent human need, at the very simplest, to half-believe that every life is a mysterious personal adventure worth pursuing to the bitter end. Why? Because -who knows? - every faithful goose girl may become a princess, every mean, usurping maid become a deserving corpse. This fine re-edition...