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...humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning out novels that entertain as well as instruct...
...teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through the backwaters of Bahia, making music and mischief and the occasional friend or lover. The glittery magic means more to the actors than it ever will to the villagers; the show must go on so that the showmen can continue to believe in themselves. The attractive cast does...
That first Game did a lot more than entertain the 3000 spectators who doled out 50 cents on November 13, 1875. That first Crimson-Eli clash had a significant effect on how football developed in America...
...Rancho del Cielo, his 688-acre spread in the Santa Ynez Mountains, north of Santa Barbara, Reagan is a man transformed, serene, under no compulsion to entertain. He shows off the fences that he and the hired man, Lee Clearwater, put up together. He displays his black thoroughbred, Little Man, a handsome brute that knows its master. From about 30 yds. away the horse responds to Reagan's call, trotting up for a pat on the nose and a piece of carrot...
When Craccio, the old man, goes out of town, Cristina, an attractive housemaid, brings two men to entertain her and her pretty mistress. The men, the town barber and apothecary, are comic oafs, and both women are relieved to hear another male voice from offstage. Enter the student from Salamanca, who has been beset by robbers and is looking for food and lodging-among other things. The husband unexpectedly returns, and the plot goes on its merry way to a happy ending...