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THERE IS quickness of pen and extraordinary imagination in Handcarved Coffins as Capote recounts the bizarre details of the Quinn-Pepper battle. One fist-faced women watches TV with the sound off, another goes to work for the circus in Sarasota, a third injures her knee in a fall from her father's horse. Capote's intuition slices through the lies, doubts and fears of these people but he refuses to condescend. He is perplexed by the townspeople who noisily support Quinn against all suspicion. And he is wounded by the quiet pain of Pepper's lover Addie, who nobly...
...epic trash. The film's real vulgarity lies not so much in its gratuitous sex and violence as it does in the hugeness of the production and its arrogant pomposity. Forget the castration scene, the oozing entrails, the close-ups of women urinating, the slow motion vomiting, the fist rammed up the anus. The real obscenity is the amount of money spent on the gallons of fake blood and the tons of naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren...
...Shake of the Fist...
...Israeli Knesset needed to shake its fist at the rest of the world in defiance and to fulfill some of its "nationalist needs" [Aug. 11]. Are the Jewish vote and money so important that Mr. Carter has chosen to sit idly by while the Israelis irresponsibly deteriorate the Camp David peace process...
...shouted a few of Kennedy's volunteer workers. But that mood quickly shifted to a lighter one, as some chanted: "Eighty-four! Eighty-four!" The Senator smiled, waved his fist and left the room. One of Kennedy's friends later told him: "If you're right and you lose, you can feel good. If you're wrong and you lose, you feel terrible. You should feel good." Replied Kennedy: "Yes, but there's something to be said for being right and winning...