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...Your grammar fails," the Eliot Pronounced with Bacchic glee...
Moreover, the glee with which you report your belief that all farmworkers suffer from extreme poverty leads me to question your motives. It seems you sincerely hope that it is true and you would rather have it that way so you could have something to crusade over...
Juggernaut is one of those creations that manage to be pleasant even though they are filled with silly, shallow adventure-film conventions. These are just the conventions that Lester mocked with such glee and fierce precision in one of his best movies, How I Won the War, It is disconcerting to find him, at least temporarily, behind enemy lines...
...began to seem certain. Lucien (Pierre Blaise), still in his teens, works in a hospital ward. The cries and murmurs of pain from the wounded cause him to turn toward the window, to the summer sunlight. He sees a bird in a nearby tree, singing, and with a certain glee, kills it with his slingshot. It is almost a reflexive action, without real significance to Lucien...
Though established as a name, Nicholson is in the first flush of excitement at being a household word right now, and he is handling it with the respectable glee and half (but only that) the mocking humor of a sort of cutup prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo...