Word: innuendo
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Unaccountably, Spacks' catalog of great gossips omits Marcel Proust, the greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
...quintet uses this innuendo to protect their own parochial proposal for a Third World Cultural Center from my criticism, but this just won't protect it I'm afraid. It happens that it was in terms of the functions of parochial moorings that I characterized Harvard students who are linked to such moorings, through Newman Club, Hillel House, etc. And from this functional vantage point (not an inferior-superior vantage point as the quintet charges) I said that some students (maybe say 35 percent of Jewish students, 35 percent of Catholic students, 50 percent of Mormons, etc.) "trek Harvard...
...this scene, however, is atypical of the film. Most everything else, from cinematography to dialogue is heavy-handed. While the camera shows a full front view of all the action, the script is equally uninspired. Everything is straight exposition: the writers seem to have forgotten the value of innuendo. This lacks of subtlety engenders a lack of surprise and coarseness in the film. One emerges from the theater benumbed by the blatancy of the script and by the ordeal of having sat through what has seemed like a thousand hours of Solid Gold...
...consequent breakdowns, bears down on him untidily and at unexpected moments. He manages, struggling, to still his madness. He succeeds, periodically, in publishing some poetry. Out of all three volumes, there are some indications that one poem will endure. It is called, with a combination of confessional irony and innuendo, Coming Clean...
DESPITE FRANZ'S efforts, however, the play lacks substance, as it stumbles from one anti-Catholic innuendo to the next...