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Straw Dogs is neither a glorification of violence nor a celebration of rape. It's a simple morality tale about the acceptance of responsibility--responsibility for one's commitments (for example, in marriage) and responsibility for one's fellow human beings (including, in this case, the village idiot). It is the acceptance of this responsibility that marks the transition into adulthood, not the resort to violence. And it is this lesson that both husband and wife must learn when faced with the attack of the local Cornwall ruffians. Epps mentions only the defense carried out by the husband, and thereby...
...asked Harrison whether he felt he had taken an unfair beating from the Boston press. Harrison said that the press on the whole had been fair, but added, "I hear a lot of things about me around here, like, 'Harrison's an idiot,' or 'Harrison's crazy,' and I just can't take it anymore. I mean I'm a broad-shouldered guy, but there's just so much a guy can take." He said that it especially bothered him that people came to games and booed him with his wife in the stands...
...Take this guy at Penn (Chuck Daly), a year ago when he was in Boston he said 'Harrison is an idiot for using (James) Brown at guard.' He goes off to Penn and uses a guy bigger than Brown at guard. But I don't call him an idiot," Harrison said...
After the trial, Maureen was by turns contrite, defiant and apologetic, with an unending supply of startling statements about the affair for newsmen. "My husband was an idiot to give himself up," she told the Daily Mail. She also declared that "I was the one who passed on information through the dead drops. I shall never know why I was not charged." Britain's Director of Public Prosecutions also was puzzled, and ordered an investigation. At week's end Maureen Bingham was charged under the Official Secrets Act and released on $1,200 bail...
...Hotel . . . But I got the terminals reversed, and this immediately showed up on the Western Union Board-a red light flashing-and so they sent over a couple of workmen to the Figueroa Street office that I'd rented ... They found Noah Dietrich there, standing there like an idiot with the glass dome of the ticker-tape machine in his hand-but no ticker-tape. I don't know how he got out of that one, but he did ... and so I hooked the terminals up again properly, and the machine ran perfectly-and it only cost...