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...acres of newsprint written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something very nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interview with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train that two are killed by an express speeding in the other direction...
OVERCOMING boredom and finding love interesting is what the three characters concentrate on for the next 50 years. Florentino seeks lust and pleasure in his experiences with his pre-teen ward, with disenchanted widows, and with prostitutes whom he refuses to pay. He shares his body with countless women, but reserves his heart for the one he loves...
...1920s -- opera with Puccini's death, silent movies with the coming of sound. So a headlong romantic like Ken Russell will embrace opera on film like a first, lost love. For him, opera is performed at peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their delirious force. At its vagrant best, Aria reminds viewers of the original arithmetic of cinema: sight + sound = sensation...
...When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness--and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments...
...qualities are exactly the same. A dogged middle-classedness; a passion for education; a faith in individual enterprise; a near hysterical sense of family; a driving impulse toward nationalism and security; a belief in individual rights and expression, in reason, in the rule of moral law; a lust for self-celebration; a boisterous embracing of life, underlain by a fearful morbidity; a sentimentality grounded in iron. Of such things is America made, and so are Jews. Above all, Jewish and American tradition delight in looking at oneself critically. If there are any tribes in history more mired in self-study...