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...scoundrel, has mastered the art of making up a story or a poem when presented with a subject by someone in his audience. The theme of Rozanov's current improvisation is-improvisations. He proceeds to spin out tales about other poets who then go on to invent tales of their own. The effect resembles a garishly colored Russian matryoshka: wooden dolls within wooden dolls...
...receiver and listen while some good sister tells some other good sister, who is not so wise, how to make butter or how to raise chickens or when it is the right time in the moon to plant onion sets or something else equally important. . . if someone would invent a contraption to shut out the other nine when a person wanted to use the tenth he would be richer and more famous than Edison. But he'd be forever unpopular with us farmers for we'd never know each other's business...
...rather than the backdrop for her novel. The result is an ambiguous, often pretentious, and (still more often) inane jumble of Harvard trivia, the diary of any student at the College would be at least as insightful. Those seeking to capture, or recapture, "the Harvard experience: are advised to invent their own Crimson ties aside, veritas must prevail Splendor and Misery is entirely the latter...
...dream, my friends; the territory was always the New World ideal. We don't ever want to run out of that, do we? Goodbye land. Hello space. Can't you picture all those moons and stars, smiling and winking and waiting for a visit? Howdy, Mr. Jupiter. Inventions arise when they're needed. This here screen and keyboard might have come along any old decade, but it happened to pop up when it did, right now, at this point in time, like the politicians call it, because we were getting hungry to be ourselves again. That's what I think...
...time he and Pollack (who followed Dick Richards and Hal Ashby as director) joined forces, he had acquired not only various draft scripts but a ferocious proprietary interest in the film. Says Hoffman: "The great scripts don't drop out of the sky; you have to invent them...