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...annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life...
...women dominate the book: those, like Bailey, who are protective mother figures or good witches, and those who resemble childhood playmates. Mary Sanchez is a professional cleaning woman whom Capote accompanies as she makes her rounds of Manhattan apartments. Both writer and domestic get high on marijuana, music and laughter, but are brought down when one of Mary's clients unexpectedly returns home...
...Anothing issue," said Congressman Henry Hyde in Detroit last week, dismissing Senator Charles Percy's outrage over the Republican platform plank that urges the appointment of judges "who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of human life." To the approving cheers and laughter of the Illinois delegation, Hyde wondered: "Who could be against traditional family values...
...never passed away. The reason is that his friends Kaufman and Hart renamed him Sheridan Whiteside and painted an indelible portrait of him in his primary colors-venom, egocentricity and gush. Ever since this farce-comedy opened in 1939, it has induced fits of manic laughter...
...rummage sales, it seems a precious thing-called directorial integrity. It does not mean that the man behind the camera tithes his salary for Cambodian refugees; it means he knows how to make movies: how to shoot and edit pieces of film so they cohere, blend to create laughter or suspense, speak eloquently in the special language of the cinema. Steven Spielberg, Alan J. Pakula, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter know the language. So does Australian Director George Miller, whose first feature contains sequences of violent, pure cinema poetry...