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Berger's borrowings from Le Morte d'Arthur are eccentric. At times, he hovers close to the celebrated tale of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, chronicling their legendary exploits, the magical interventions of Merlin and the quest for the Holy Grail. But his treatment of the romances between Tristram and Isold, Launcelot and Guinevere reads like a medieval version of Couples. Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice...
Consider: Marathoner, one of a proliferation of periodicals, calls marathoning "the Holy Grail" that runners "exhaust themselves struggling for." Bob Anderson, editor of the semimonthly On the Run, goes further: "Someone once said, 'For humanity to survive, it will have to invent a new religion.' The religion has been invented. It is the religion of the runner." Such high-flying rhetoric is common among True Runners...
Harvard Square Theater--Friday: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Groove Tube, 2:35, 5:30, 8:25, Friday and Saturday at midnight. Saturday-Sunday: Saturday Night Fever, 12, 3:55, 7:55; Mean Streets...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail--Remember, a few years ago, how funny these guys were? They still are, kids, and this is their best movie. Watch out for killer bunnies, shrubberies...
Jarvis has been waging that war for 16 years now. While others talked of Viet Nam and Watergate, he pursued with almost monomaniacal fervor what he calls his Holy Grail: reduced taxes and reduced government spending. In three unsuccessful campaigns for public office (the 1962 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, the 1972 race for the State Board of Equalization and the 1977 Los Angeles mayoral primary), Jarvis frequently failed to mention his own candidacy; all he wanted to do, he says, was publicize the tax issue...