Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough. The film rests on a script by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) that settles for cringingly arch character names (Smokey Pickles, Mr. Noseworthy) and a naive blend of symbolism and social critiscism. What is worse, Charlie's contempt for the traps and trappings of wealth cannot hide an underlying self-pity, accentuated by Actor Finney's eyes-closed, O-God-I'm-so-weary-of-you-all posture. And Charlie's wild-blue-yonder exit is not so much escape as escapism-providing an end without a conclusion to a view without a point...
...frequent excuse to travel to Moscow. London's MI-6 spent five years preparing Wynne for his spy role before he ever met Colonel Penkovsky. Part of the training was a routine initiation into the ar cane arts of a courier: how to conceal film, where to hide messages, what to do if the Soviets plant a girl in his hotel room. But one part consisted of a brutal simulation of what Wynne could expect in a Soviet prison if he was captured, and as it happened, he needed...
...criminal wants to hide his act and escape punishment, Adams said, but a person committing civil disobedience wants to publicize his act and be punished...
...gonna run away and hide...
...final gesture, the narrator seems to turn up the house lights to reveal that his tale is only an illusion. As he sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch...