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...Faye, Karen Black displays the selfishness and banality of a seductive blonde eternally on the make. Always on the defensive, she seeks to extract what she can from any situation while giving up as little as possible. When Tod asks why she has taken up with Homer Simpson, a retired clerk from the midwest, she brays impatiently that Homer is the only one who "doesn't want anything from...
...HOMER IS WANDERING aimlessly through the crowd, Faye having just left him. He sits down on a bench, oblivious to the mob around him. Adore, a child actor, who has been taunting him throughout the movie as a Nazi spy, now appears again to harass him. Homer finally loses control and attacks the boy, unleashing the torrent of violence raging inside him against this city where he came to find his paradise and that has given him only pain and humiliation...
...city responds in kind, for it is a city of bitter, empty people waiting for the occasion to express the bitterness within them. They go crazy, literally tearing Homer apart, turning over the limousines that only moments ago they had greeted with their frenzied love, men pawing animal-like at women's breasts and legs, smashing windows and looting stores...
...impossible to interrupt him as he goes over the history of the two children's fiction awards (about this time his agent, a rather large woman, stops paying attention to the interview); then he says that only four other writers have even sold a million paperback copies in England-Homer, Chaucer, George Orwell, and D.H. Lawrence-but he discounts Lawrence because he thinks the book was Lady Chatterly's Lover...
...Crimson soon suffered for its lack of practice as Tufts stunned the Harvard batmen the Monday after they returned from Florida, 7-5. Four days later, Penn came to town and while Crimson ace Milt Holt pitched well. Quaker centerfielder Tom Brandt tagged a three-run homer to win the game, 3-1. By April 11, Penn had jumped out to a 4-0 mark in the HBI while the Crimson...