Word: muldoonism
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Teacher George Muldoon, attempting to demonstrate the inner workings of a capitalist democracy, helped his students set up a mock country. A President was elected, magistrates appointed, money printed, laws written and small businesses established...
...reversals. Garp, raised on the campus of a New England boys' school where his mother is head nurse, exhibits strong maternal instincts. When his wife decides to have an affair, she behaves with all the distracting caution of the philandering commuter. The most striking sexual suspect is Roberta Muldoon, formerly Robert, a transsexual who once played tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles. She is Garp's closest friend and squash partner...
...confusion, relieved only by one novel touch. This must be the first train movie in which the hero keeps getting thrown off the train. It is a nice gag, which has the added advantage of introducing Richard Pryor. He appears as a thief, with the unlikely name of Grover Muldoon, who helps the long-suffering George on the train and off again a couple of times. What furtive sprightliness Silver Streak manages to work up is attributable mostly to Pryor, sly-eyed and fast-mouthed, an unbeatable antic spirit...
Althea chronicles the divorce of Muldoon-Adam from Fantasy-Eve. A slow divorce--it spans the late 1950s through 1973. It's a long book that moves as slowly and richly as a pageant, sometimes presenting vivid tableaus such as Muldoon's chance meeting with Norma after years apart--he no longer recognizes the dope-smoking, guerilla-garbed literary lioness Norma has become...
...Muldoon finally realizes that Norma, his Fantasy-Eve, will always distract him yet admits at last to himself that other worlds "like the ones orbiting in the daily sports pages" attract him equally. Norma's final goodbye is couched in her old Viennese accent--sincerity proves harsh, good-humored cynicism masks realism once more: "Vell, zee Revolution calls, you know...