Word: digressiveness
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...ideology and the end of history and the end of nature, I can finally tell the sad but true story of how a small boy from suburban New York conspired with the communist dictators of Eastern Europe and Communist China, nearly mortgaging his future in the process. But I digress...
...about him, but it is the air of a spoiled child. Abruptly cruel and totally selfish, he is as maniacally dedicated to tax avoidance as she is to tax compliance. She may spare a moment from investigative accountancy for compassion (directed at his troubled teenage son). He may digress from getting and hoarding to express a possibly authentic romantic longing (directed at her). But fundamentally they are both driven by passions that are beyond rational analysis or control...
...what actually happened, and to leave a different image in the mind of each viewer. Why couldn't the League president have been the moderator? Why couldn't distinguished former elected officials, from all points of the political spectrum, have constituted the panel? At least then a tendency to digress from the true subject of the evening would have been understandable, even expected, and could have been expressly forbidden beforehand...
...myself hail, a new country, a new entity, a new nation, conceived in liberty, or, as the French would say, liberty, egalite, fraternite, although actually the French of the Constitution surely looked as much to English sources, such as Edmund Burke, as to the French philosophes. ...but I digress...
Sendak tries by postulating a group of nasty little kids--the kind who populate his books--who play at making a movie, and, in the process, take turns presenting "screen test" sequences which digress into the characters' original tales. Not that much in the way of either tales or transitions survives. The kids' ringleader is Rosie (Dede Schmeiser), who spends most of her time fantasizing about the terrible things that may have happened to her little brother, Chicken Soup (Steve Gutwillig), who tags along after her by parental edict. One hanger-on is named Alligator (Valerie Gilbert...