Word: finney
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...Finney is tougher, handsomer, more interesting and less schooled than you are. From here on, Finney is you, at least in those rare moments when you look morality in the eye. We watch him stand eye to eye with the girl he's made pregnant, later eye to eye with her surprisingly decent husband...
This "truth" that Finney seeks (according to this reviewer) is more than the boring note on which many midnight bull-sessions disperse. Finney seeks, and so do you, the answers to questions something like these...
...much consideration and help do people owe to each other? (Quite a lot, Finney finds.) 2. How much of the truth is beneficial between friends? (As much as the friend seems anxious to hear.) 3. How much does being good conflict with having fun? (Not much.) 4. Can violent fun and beery, sexy opiation pierce life's barriers and illuminate its corners...
...What Finney and you and I don't realize about our television-drugged parents is that by now they have acquired some sort of life-view, and they have pocketed it, like some foreign coin saved from a trip abroad--too interesting to discard and fun to show off, but not of much use any more...
...boisterous saga of Mr. Finney is preceded by a violent, impressionistic travelogue, stridently sound-tracked, in which pastoral Dutch countryside appears as it would to a man being dragged through it by his horse's stirrup--interesting but unpleasant...