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When the Titanic went down, a banner headline in the Los Angeles Examiner read "Titanic Sinks; Many Millionaires Reported Drowned." Lord Lew Grade, who put up the money for Raise the Titanic, deserves, if not to drown, then at least to take a bath...
...voyeuristic audience, the director and his unrestrainable camera. But the movie is hardly so sharply focused and all of a piece for this to be given much thought. The actors simply frown and spoof their way through the thing, treading water in the thickest nonsense until DePalma decides to drown the show in a wave of opulent violence...
...seriocomedies, The Blood of the Lamb and Reuben, Reuben. In Decency, Conn., a favorite De Vries setting, the commuters and their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With sin and guilt suspended, the book lacks the touch of tragic relief that has made De Vries a top banana of the Calvinist comedy hour...
...biography of his aunt: "If the test of passion be blindness, then [Virginia's] affections were not very deeply engaged." Virginia sharpens that point in the play: "Life and a lover she thought. It does not scan." For Woolf, her work was her life. While she would drown herself as pitiably as Ophelia, she could not drown her vocation in Vita...
...mural for the theater inspired by Studs Terkel's Hard Times," Miller provides panoramic vignettes of just about everything one has read or heard of the period. The seemingly invincible princes of Wall Street get themselves wiped out overnight and take their suicidal plunges. Angry dairy farmers drown highways in milk. The haggard hour of the breadlines arrives as millions of blue-and white-collar workers find themselves obsolete. And, as the narrator puts it, "the habits of royalty spread into Brooklyn-the ancient noble question arose of how you paid the rent without money...