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...when Harold Miller eloped for the first time, he was 22-and his bride was 13. Her name was Roberta, but Miller called her Diana, after the virgin Roman goddess of the hunt. Roberta-Diana died at age 20 from the effects of sniffing cleaning fluid to get high...
...discovery. ''Anybody who knew anything about aerodynamics would have said, 'Forget it, it won't work,' " he grins. "Me, I never even heard of Bernoulli's principle." That dictum, upon which all conventional airfoils are based, says that the faster a gas or fluid flows, the less pressure it exerts. As an aircraft wing is thrust forward, the flow of air over the curved upper surface is faster than the flow past the flat underside. Thus there is more push from beneath the wing than on the upper surface, where pressure is reduced; that...
...toward modern life shines through. Paris in rich golds and browns is even more pleasing than it was in The Conformist. In the final phase of the film, even this romance breaks down, as Brando walks past wrecked buildings and muttering peep shows. Still, the film has such a fluid pictorial style that it often seems to visually glorify all eroticism, no matter how painful. If the world is dying, it is doing so in a grand and passionate manner where even the greatest decadence is romanticized by hyperbole...
...words, the stylized rigid words would not come; nor those loose-limbed fluid cries. Instead she was assaulted by the memories of a group of flowers she had planted carefully somewhere behind the small South Carolina house long...
...felt nauseated by their prophecy. Their articiality stank in her mind, with its proclamation of barren death. Never before had she felt less weighty. Her body was small, had always been small, but usually clumsy and uncomfortably present on her bones. Now she felt fluid, fading into the dying sunlight. She stared at her extremities. Her toes and fingers were slender stalks. Plastic and uprooted like her flowers. Fading thinly into invisibility. Her eyes traveled up her body. Her sturdy thighs, her entire stumpy self was a slender green stem, fading...