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...give Burton sturdy opposition, Oskar Werner, as Mundt's itchy second-in-command, makes that "clever little Jew" a prismatic study of ambition thwarted. Claire Bloom, though too prettily cast as the leftist English librarian who befriends Leamas, nonetheless plays innocence abroad with life-or-death urgency. In Spy's superblend of suspense and philosophical despair, the girl is the last to know that her lover was already a cold-war casualty when she met him. The anonymous men who live by violence, Leamas tells her savagely, "are a bunch of seedy squalid bastards, henpecked husbands, sadists, queers...
Alfvén's theory evolved from an earlier proposal by another Swedish physicist, Dr. Oskar Klein, who believes that the known universe originated billions of years ago from a cloud of matter and antimatter particles that was contracting because of gravitation. As the particles drew closer together, the increasing annihilative reactions between matter and antimatter produced enough radiation pressure to reverse the contraction of the cloud and hurl its primeval matter outward in an expansion that has continued ever since...
Three characters rise above this muck: Oskar Werner, the ship's doctor; Lee Marvin, the baseball player; and Simone Signoret, the countess. Simone has lived a lot and squints all the time because she finds it too painful to look wide-eyed at the world. At the same time, she is as cuddlesome as can be. When Werner says, "Some-times you're so bitter; then you're soft and warm as a child," she groans, "I'm just a woman...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Grand Hotel afloat, with Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner expertly rocking Katherine Anne Porter's boat...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Grand Hotel afloat, with such passengers as Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner expertly rocking Katherine Anne Porter's boat...