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Shade himself cannot be asked about his intentions, because he is dead-shot by Gradus, a Zemblan assassin who was aiming at the exile king (the murderer claimed to be merely an escaped maniac named Jack Grey, and was believed by police...
...only a few of which are enumerated above, pose the open threat of the establishment in this hemisphere..." In other words, no matter how clearly threatened Cuba may have been (and after all, they were invaded after the press spoon-fed the American public an image of Castro-the-maniac who was stirring up fears of an imminent invasion from the North simply as a means of retaining popularity) Castro had no right to import Soviet arms. Yet Krock maintains that any threat, whether clear, present, potential, or imaginary, grants the U.S. the right to break treaty agreements with impunity...
...five years old; and what interested him were the implications of dictatorship. It is to his eternal credit that he gave his villain all the best lines, all the most telling arguments. Desire for absolute power may be a form of madness, but to turn Caligula into a raving maniac would have been to build a straw man and knock him down with a bulldozer...
...palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer...
Kanin's hero (Tony Curtis) is a young sax maniac from Milwaukee who has come to Manhattan to blow the town down-he stands for Innocence. The heroine (Debbie Reynolds) is a hoofer who expected to wrap show business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...