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...schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart murmur, which requires prolonged and restful treatment...
...Truffaut's The 400 Blows), occasionally even classic (Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct). Such adventures into the past require a good deal of perspective if they are to be anything more than sentimental souvenirs. This quality is in short supply in Louis Malle's reminiscence, Murmur of the Heart...
Sewing and Patching. Thompson's narrative is heightened by a personal drama: his son Scott, then nine, had a heart murmur. One of the Houston heart men discovered that Scott's was a false murmur that would clear up within a few years. That is an exuberant moment that any parent can share. By contrast, the book's most flat and chilling passage recounts a dinner conversation with Dr. Grady Hallman. an associate of Cooley's. "Excellence comes out of experience and nothing else." said Hallman. "I know a lot of people who are dead today...
...some ways, the activity on a greensward in Southampton, N.Y., last week resembled a regulation polo match. The meaty thwock of a mallet hitting a polo ball punctuated the polite murmur of cultivated sideline conversation as a brightly uniformed player sped toward the goal. But one sound was missing: the thundering hoofbeats of the polo ponies. There was good reason. Instead of riding ponies, the players were astride a variety of bicycles, fiercely competing in a sport that is enjoying a rapid resurgence across the U.S.: bicycle polo...
...auction house, amid the deep carpets and the reverent murmur of bids, such prices are made to look like a belated homage to genius. In fact they are nothing of the kind. They represent a crass transformation of aesthetic experience into commodity. They stem from two iron rules of the market: 1) that as money devalues, it seeks to embody itself in commodities that seem more stable than bank notes or stock; 2) that a painting or sculpture has no "real" value at all. It is worth what some collector can be induced to pay for it, not a cent...