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...Monstrous Metamorphosis. In Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard saw the end of the world as a vast traffic jam. Bergman's concept is less visual-and more chilling. His people never see history; like radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps...
...cars and television sets for the working man, this has left him impatient for more-and newly aware of the staggering inequities of Italian life. The rich can dodge taxes, the wheeler-dealers can buy their way with graft. The little man is frustrated at every turn by a monstrous bureaucracy that seldom offers him redress from injustice...
...cigar burn). This denouement makes the playwright seem like a bumbling amateur and the Israeli secret agents as incredibly inept. Goldman, it appears, was a kind of Christ-surrogate who wanted to be martyred so that his people might feel that some fitting atonement had been made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device on a grandiose scale. Some crimes-and the murder of the Jews is certainly one-dwarf atonement and defy retributive justice. A token of evil...
...complex relativistic considerations would make it unworkable. World War II halted the project and saved Lawrence from great embarrassment. But the postwar years brought another. Putting his prestige and influence in Washington to work, Lawrence overcame the objections of other scientists and won approval for the construction of a monstrous proton accelerator for converting nonfissionable uranium 238 into fission able plutonium, which could be used in nuclear weapons. This time, after three years and huge expenditures, Lawrence completed the accelerator. But to his chagrin, it produced an effective beam of protons for only two hours, then burned out and never...
...single sign saying "No" is tolerated anywhere in the nation. Opposition is expressed only in hand made signs in remote corners where they might escape official notice. A monstrous blue neon sign reading "Yes" is perched on a hill overlooking the Acropolis right outside of Athens...