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Through dusty villages and neglected cities called Urgüp and Erzurum, Glaze-brook finally arrives at Kars in the "Land of Far Beyond." Near by, Noah's ark went aground on Mount Ararat, and the Eden of Islamic myth bloomed. Persian, Turk and Russian battled over Kars for centuries. More prosaically, we learn that, except for Norway, Turkey is the only NATO country to border the U.S.S.R...
Jake appears torn between the two great adolescent impulses: rebellion and brooding. Jake the brooder downs wine with his girlfriend, races across town on his motorbike, and walks everywhere with a permanent glaze of confusion and despair. Jake the rebel plays the quintessential smart-ass, letting out sarcasm faster than he can understand it. This Jake mouths things like "Don't ever touch me or my brother again," even as Sam appears ready to smash him into the wall. This Jake assures his brother's principal there will be no more fights "Because I promise...
...medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...
...like an amphetamine-crazed Doberman. Freer also consulted Whistler about his Oriental purchases, so that in Washington one can see some highly informative parallels between Whistler's work and his taste in other art. There are, for instance, two majestic Satsuma-ware sake flasks, with a glaze the color and texture of old, cracked ivory, adorned with faint blue landscape paintings by Tangen, whose ghostly suggestiveness, mere scribbles wreathing out of the whiteness as though through fog, is exactly like Whistler's own images of twilit landscape...
...audience. In adapting play to film, Harwood and the always sensible Peter Yates have chosen to show Sir at work. And Finney has chosen to be as good as he can be as Lear. This redeems Sir from the bombastic egocentricity of his dressing-room self, placing a humanizing glaze on his hamminess. It also makes the ironic point that for many actors a role is the only worthwhile reality, reality a role they never quite learn...