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...Second Honeymoon. A generally staid, middle-class group, the jurors were unprepared for the grueling experience, which was enough to make ding-a-lings out of the most stable personalities. Yet their deliberations seemed unaffected. The impact on their personal lives was something else...
...Fascists dispatch him to France to kill one of his former college professors, and he combines the assignment with a honeymoon trip for his addled bride (Stefania Sandrelli). The meeting with his instructor and an intense assignation with the professor's wife (Dominique Sanda), reinforce his cynicism but weak en his homicidal resolve. The killing must be carried out by others while Marcello huddles in the back seat of a car, staring blankly at the slaughter...
...wants most of all to present. Perhaps the best example of this comes toward the end of the film when Antonio has recovered sufficiently to walk and mumble vague desires. He asks to be taken out in a boat. His wife, thinking it a moment of nostalgia for their honeymoon, joyfully rows him out from shore. But once on the lake, Antonio begins rocking the boat spasmodically, pathetically slapping at his wife with an oar, muttering all the while, "An American tragedy, An American tragedy." There is more here than a comic allusion to Dreiser's novel. Saura has finally...
Disillusionment sets in on the honeymoon. Belle decides she rates a taxi instead of a crowded trolley that reminded her "of the horrors I've already survived." Inquiring into the exact nature of these horrors, George observes that she had never even been hungry. "I have been hungry," she storms. "I'm hungry right...
Stock prices, he contends, always rise in the third year of a President's administration. At the beginning of a term, everyone wishes the new Chief Executive well, but disillusion quickly sets in. The honeymoon ends, many pledges go unfulfilled. The market reacts by going down. The off-year election adds to the upset as the opposition flails at the White House and the President sometimes finds himself unable to influence congressional races. In his third year, says Allen, a President either starts running for his own re-election or begins thinking of his party's prospects...