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...does not include a stern call to Roman virtue and gravity. Arcadia's weather is always equable, and its views intimate and mellow. Above all, its location is not too far out of town; Giorgione, Titian, Rubens and other pastoralists never fail to include the reassuring sight of a martello tower or a farmhouse in the middle distance...
Like Joyce, Strick doesn't follow a conventional, chronological narrative line. We are accustomed to flash-backs, but not to such brief flashes as those Strick introduces in his first scene: at the Martello tower, Buck Mulligan says "The aunt thinks you killed your mother," and Stephen sees, and we see, his mother's deathbed, an image that recurs in the drunken hallucinations of Nighttown. Except for Resnais's films, we are not at all accustomed to flash-forwards, and Strick uses them liberally: as Bloom leaves home in the morning, he imagines Blazes Boylan, his wife Molly's lover...
...years, Joyce lived at more than 200 residences scattered across the face of Europe-fleabags and fine hotels, hospitals and clinics, pensions and borrowed apartments, students' rooms and Martello towers. In these settings, Joyce wrote his books, from the epiphanies represented by Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the full achievements of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition, Joyce launched on the world a flood of letters. The first batch, edited by Stuart Gilbert, was published nearly a decade ago (TIME, June 3, 1957). Since then, many more have been found: these...
...lost his job, and was separated from his wife. Andrade regularly paid $120 out of his $200-a-month medical compensation to help support his four minor children. After two years, Andrade's compensation ceased. Since then, he has been basically supported by his common-law wife, Elma Martello, by whom he has a three-year-old daughter...
...charged him with nonsupport. He pleaded guilty, and the county recommended probation. But Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle took a firmer view: "I am concerned about all the children this man is producing without the ability to support them." He gave Andrade a choice: marriage to Elma Martello and sterilization by vasectomy-or jail...