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...father's designs and more: innocently guilty, guiltily innocent, she is death in life, life in death; simultaneously poison and antidote. Despite her beauty and naivete, Beatriz is also the perversion of many myths. The forbidden fruit, she is an Italian Beatrice who leads a young man into an inferno, the Christfigure whose father shouts "My child, why have you forsaken me?" This Beatriz not only represents a reworking of past myths, she is also a symbol of moderns. As a solitary prisoner of her condition, she is doomed in her passion for another. She like Juan touches only images...
...obvious level, Falconer Prison is a bureaucratic inferno where men are not beaten but left to burn in their memories. Farragut's flare periodically throughout the book. He recalls the decline of his family's fortune and their retreat into eccentricity and shabby gentility. He remembers the beginning of his drug addiction during World War II. As an infantryman in the South Pacific, he got regular rations of codeine cough medicine and Benzedrine. Drugs helped him endure a postwar world that he felt had "outstripped the human scale," and sustained him in his marriage to a beautiful, cruel...
...into this ferment--this crucible of trials--this Dantean inferno of misdeeds that Martin King, Jr. came, labored and died. And it is fitting that we celebrate the birth of our fallen leader. I make bold to say that Martin Luther King, Jr. was the one genuine prophet developed by the Western World and the United States of America. The fact that he was Black--elevates and illuminates this occasion...
...Piper Cherokee onto the home of Lockheed Lobbyist Yoshio Kodama (TIME April 5). Box office receipts were deceptively high, totaling $390 million. But more than half the revenue came from a succession of smash-hit imports: Earthquake (which reminded Japanese of their own killer quake of 1923), Towering Inferno, Emmanuelle and Jaws...
Logic notwithstanding, studios are increasingly grabbing for the brass ring. Warner Brothers last week began production of Exorcist II, starring Richard Burton. Initial budget: $10 million. Next year Warner will release two new megadisaster flicks produced by Irwin (Towering Inferno) Allen: The Swarm (bees do it) and The Day the World Ended. Each will cost well over $12 million. Paramount has in the works Dino De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong ($16 million or so). United Artists will ultimately release a version of Cornelius Ryan's tome on World War II, A Bridge Too Far, produced by Joseph...