Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mystery springs from her not acting formidable most of the time. Godard captures her self-centeredness by focusing on her trivial gestures--incessant slow hair-combing, contemplative re-rouging, a monologue that skips carelessly from sex to her new blue coat. Leaud plays a jokier person than Miss Goya, except when he is with Miss Goya. We watch while he and a Marx-spouting companion lounge in a cafe, get up one at a time, borrow sugar from a table nearby. The two are inspecting the breasts of a lady sitting at the table. The verdict is "Fantastique...
...question, how do you compete with the Maoist model? The Maoist model is geared to a low level of human life in some ways. It may go far because conditions may be at a low level in developing countries. We have not faced the competition with this model, except insofar as we talk about "the other war." We try to put together economic and social arrangements. In other words, I think our basic problem is that our loosely organized, pluralistic society is in competition with the more Spartan and highly integrated Chinese model. Now this theme hase been overworked...
...spite of the hints of movement in these stories and texts, all is really paralytic stasis-except for the voices, the indomitable voices, droning on. They are at once the final buffers and the last instruments capable of registering anguish: "Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased . . . my words are my tears, my eyes my mouth...
History has been cruel to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. In his day-the latter half of the 19th century-he was an enormously popular writer. Hardly anyone knows him today except as the sick mind who, like the Marquis de Sade, lent his name to the glossary of psychiatric terms. This first English-language biography by a journeyman translator and biographer (Pushkin, Brighter than a Thousand Suns) tries hard to deal coolly with its subject, but Sacher-Masoch was such a bumbler that the reader cannot take him seriously. The poor fellow was really a kind of romantic, who always...
...business is nothing but politics." Carnovsky is marvelously forceful in describing his job ("Kings, my girl, have other things to do than to surrender themselves to their private feelings."), and in his extended Homeric simile about the ship of state, culminating with the terrible pronunciamento, "Nothing has a name--except the ship, and the storm...