Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partly in rebellion against his money grubbing father that Jamie refuses to make good and flaunts his habit of frequenting bars and beds of whores. In addition, Jamie resents Edmund, always "Momma's baby, Poppa's pet", who now show budding writing talent. Edmund, meanwhile, apart from suffering consumption, blames his very existence on his mother's drug addiction. To escape from their troubles, the men spend late hours drowning themselves in alcohol, while Mary glides about smothered in morphine, dreamily praying to the Blessed Virgin as she did as a schoolgirl...
...movie is generally depressing as things tend to move from bad to worse for all the characters. The only success story we come across is that of a crippled black man who makes it as a car thief. The minor characters--Benson's spacy yet sympathetic bride, her phrenologist-pet merchant mother, and Harry's brother--are well-portrayed, each contributing convincingly to the tapestry of Middle America fallen on hard times. Scenery of construction sites, factories and dreary Florida suburbs add to the general air of hopelessness...
...those performers who appear to be playing for the mirror instead of the camera; nothing interferes with his pleased self-contemplation Harry's boy should have been a mutt, the way his father must once have been,' but Benson plays him like a doggy in a pet shop window, always hoping someone will scratch his tummy. All one can say in his defense is that his director makes a similar choice at every significant turn in the film. Newman does not rage at the dying light; he keeps trying to cuddle up to it −By Richard Schickel
Little seems to slow Gould down, but the discovery of cancer in July 1982 forced him to curtail his hectic pace. Nevertheless, throughout his year-and-a-half bout with cancer, he has continued to teach courses and work on his pet project, studying and cataloguing the characteristics of the Cerion, a Bahamas land snail...