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While hereditary estates slip through his fingers, Don Fabrizio is still so much the autocrat of his own dinner table as to curl silver spoons into hoops with his powerful fist during gusts of paternal rage. His sons are sulky, his daughters mute and brittle. His pious, hysterical wife chills the prince's ardors by making the sign of the cross in bed. The lusty prince comforts himself with a peasant mistress in Palermo and scandalizes his docile confessor-in-residence by forcing the poor priest to come along for the nighttime carriage ride...
...middle-aged nun announces as she gazes in seraphic innocence at the motor of a stalled truck, '"is about to depart from the battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist of a Nazi brute, a priest struggles blindly to his feet, then firmly turns the other cheek. And even the most calcified tear duct will surely start to flow when Scenarist Presnell turns on the pathos-"What is your name?" a nun inquires of a tiny refugee who lifts...
...editor he was a brilliant bully. Wells once confessed that he made him feel like a bankrupt undertaker; Classicist Middleton Murry cowered as Harris roared: "God's great fist! You, Murry, wrote this drivel about Paradise Lost?" But Harris befriended Oscar Wilde-though he did not share Oscar's homosexual bent-and the friendship bolstered his social success. It was a time when conversation was still considered a fine art, and Wilde and Harris were two of the greatest conversational artists in London, sought by hostesses for the wit and charm of their anecdotage...
...next school, St. Mary's, near Lake Victoria, the lessons for the first time were in English. He was no prodigious scholar, and no leader, but he liked singing, acting, and especially debating. His teachers noted another characteristic, a deep aversion to violence. No one recalls a single fist fight or angry argument; when the kids ribbed him about his soprano voice and his chubby figure, he laughed it away...
...game. If left alone, he will toss an old-fashioned two-handed set that soars so high it is dubbed "the rainmaker"; if crowded, he will knock anyone into the seats who gets in his way as he drives for the layup. His trademark: a right fist brandished in the air after a basket...