Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero is David Staebler (Jack Nicholson), a late night radio monologuist who broadcasts private traumas packaged for cultural consumption. He leaves the sordid bachelor digs he shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream. Meanwhile they...
...ought to be, or hope they would be." On that blunt basis, the political parties of Northern Ireland will be given until next March to evolve a formula for a new constitution. Before then, Ulster will be asked to vote on whether it wishes to remain within the United Kingdom or join with the Republic of Ireland. As a prelude to that plebiscite, the Dublin government plans a referendum on whether the Irish constitution should continue to grant a "special position" within the republic to the Roman Catholic Church. The existing provision has long been cited by Ulster Protestants...
...career separated from power, and he reacts with occasional arrogance to the pettiness of his academic colleagues. He grumbles through the second volume of his memoirs about the problem of getting good domestics in various countries (house servants are uncooperative in the Soviet Union, nonexistent in the United Kingdom). A deep-seated elitism becomes quickly transparent. Kennan has a commitment to the existence of an elect, not necessarily of the people, but of God, or at least of a natural order that distributes talents unevenly...
...dilemmas and social problems, these schools offer only "the pretense of free choice within a carefully constructed framework of contrived and managed possibilities." Moreover, the schools' "ideological antisepsis" guarantees that no child "will ever choose spontaneously to learn of things which lie outside the province of privilege, the kingdom of trivia, or the boundaries of self-gratification...
...brother Jason conspired to kill their grandfather with a piece of breaded sole and become "accomplices forever." The old man is very much alive, of course; David lives with him still, until a message arrives from Jason in Atlantic City: "Get your ass down here. Our kingdom is come...