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Malle's characters are always cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing...
...world watched, calm doctors performed their ritual...
...nation, particularly at places like New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center and Chicago's Cook County Hospital. The difference this time was the victim: not some dope dealer or faithless lover, but the President of the U.S. But even with the world watching, the medical ritual was the same...
...chauffeur called for Yamashita promptly at 7:50 a.m. in an indigo Mercedes-Benz limousine. His wife Kikuko, 57, accompanied him outside his house and bowed farewell. Acknowledging this ritual with a nod, Yamashita climbed into the back seat. He greeted his driver by saying: "It's going to be another hectic...
Next Monday is Oscar night, when Hollywood's elite will tux and tart themselves up, like 3,000 extras in some impossibly opulent '30s costume drama, for the movie industry's spring ritual of self-congratulation. In the packed Los Angeles Music Center they will hear a former B-movie swain and Screen Actors Guild president named Ronald Reagan deliver an address on the theme "Film Is Forever." They will bestow Academy Awards on their most envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million...