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...life with alcohol and casual sex. Even moments of conversational insight are lost on such a crowd. One woman declares during an informal party. "I believe that if we live intensely, in spiritual fulfillment, every minute is worth a year and every year we get younger!" Her flippantly-made remark is quickly laughed off: "An oracle! An alcoholic oracle!" Marcello seems to stop searching for fulfillment, rather he celebrates the meaninglessness of life...
...improvisation. Ouellette's Whitcomb is particularly hilarious, although the P.C. police might not be too happy with his characterization of the gay hairdresser. The roles are one-dimensional enough for the actor to concentrate on adlibbing and reacting to the audience's demands: so question goes unanswered, no remark unchallenged, no provocation dismissed...
...Calcutta remark was grimly amusing to Alex Kotlowitz, who wrote There Are No Children Here, the 1991 best seller about two children in a Chicago housing project. Kotlowitz notes that Mother Teresa has visited Chicago's underclass -- and was honestly shocked. "We're talking about second and third generations of children growing in communities like this. It's breaking the spiritual back of the people," he says. And each time that particular wheel is rediscovered, he notes, "we say, 'Oh, my God.' And then nothing is done...
...Widener the Younger was aboard the Titanic when it went down, and that only his prodigious swimming ability gave him something with which to occupy himself as he grew weaker and weaker and ultimately drowned. In the aftermath of the disaster, a friend of the family was heard to remark, "If only Young Widener had been content to stay at home eating ice cream as I advised, this tragedy would never have come to pass...
...given bad information," says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, a close friend. Others speculated that Inman had read implications of hostility into one of Dole's wisecracks. The admiral has never disclosed his party affiliation. Dole quipped that he seemed to be a "Gergen Republican" -- and Inman cited that remark...