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ORPHEUS DESCENDING (TNT, premiering Sept. 24). Vanessa Redgrave dazzled London in a 1988 revival of Tennessee Williams' 1957 flop. Playing an Italian- American misfit in a small Southern town, she was less rapturously received in the subsequent Broadway production (the basis for this film). Still, her over-the-top performance fascinates...
...this point, the film really has the potential to take off. The misfit miscreants have escaped the massed forces of the New York Police Department, but can they escape New York itself? Chief Rotzinger doesn't think so. "Our only hope," he says prophetically, "is that they're mired down in the same shit we have to wade through every...
Moreover, there is no necessary connection between striving for knowledge and being a social misfit. In many cultures where intellect is valued more highly than it is here, academic achievement and social success go hand in hand...
Bentsen chipped in on the Democratic anti-Quayle barrage, saying it was an "incredible misfit" for his vice presidential rival to compare his own experience in Congress with John F. Kennedy's before the 1960 election. Quayle's self-comparison produced the most riveting moment of the debate, when Bentsen turned to him and said, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy...
...complicated than this, and DeLillo develops his intricate plot with cinematic bravura. There are flashes back and forward in time, and jump cuts between the conspirators and Oswald, who is growing up to become exactly the kind of person the CIA renegades had planned to invent: a malcontent and misfit with a known fondness for Castro and guns. Slowly, dimly, Oswald begins to realize that he is being watched, people have designs on his destiny. Someone who knows what is cooking spells it out for him: "You're a quirk of history. You're a coincidence. They devise a plan...