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...symbol-minded Joyce, the fabric of the story is not as it seams; with his unique portmanteauhold on language, he gives every line a sinister dexterity and gleanings of meanings. Finnegan, for example, is a Franco-English pun: fin-again-literally, resurrection. In a word, it sums up Joyce's epic of eternal recurrence in which Finnegan-Earwicker goes through mankind's plunge and rise as he "falls" asleep only in the end to "wake" to life. H. C. Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere...
...THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance...
...THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance...
...much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part of a swordfish, naturally, is his mouth. More often he is foul-hooked-in the dorsal fin, back or cheek-as he rolls around, batting the bait. But a foul hookup does nothing to impair his fighting ability...
...Thief of Paris. The outlaw has been an object of fascination for the French cinema from Pepe le Moko to La Guerre Est Finie. In Thief, the subject for study is Jean-Paul Belmondo, an impenitent housebreaker operating in the gleaming fin de siecle Paris...