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...escape, I shut down the television and radio and computer. I take up a book, one that is as far as possible from the noise - Lytton Strachey's essay on the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. It starts with a thought that is utterly alien to the culture we live in: "In what resides the most characteristic virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such, David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar.... To have...
...stolid performance, unexciting and annoyingly self-righteous, as usual. Travolta was amusing in "Get Shorty" but his role gave him nothing to do; he was much better in "Pulp Fiction." An actor, however, who really should have been nominated is Jonathan Pryce, for his stellar performance as the eccentric Lytton Strachey in "Carrington...
...GOOD TURTLE SOUP OR ONLY the mock? Or to put the question more directly, is the lengthy, unconsummated love affair between Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) one of the great tragic romances of our century or just another of those neurotic dithers the Bloomsbury crowd was always working themselves into...
...gingerly, respectful and respectable. Reason tells us that there must have been something more needy and smothering in her nature, something more grasping and careless in his, than Hampton shows us. After all, Dora did marry a handsome youth not because she was smitten with him but because Lytton was. Yet their menage a trois is presented blandly, and her forays in search of sexual satisfaction have little dramatic consequence. Mostly this is a movie in which people take soulful country strolls or wait expectantly for Lytton to lob a withering epigram...
...Laurel Fortuner, from her winning entry in the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for wretched writing, sponsored by San Jose State University