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...herself into her roles with uncommon zeal. Drive, He Said originally got an X rating partly because of the ardor that Black and Co-Star William Tepper showed during one scene in the front seat of a car. After filming a nude scene, Karen can forget to put her robe back on. On one movie set she volunteered to the wife of a costar: "How can you live with such a schlump? Divorce him before he destroys...
...seat, rolls up the window, and closes his eyes to go to sleep--then another date announcing a new day flashes on the screen. Adriana sits alone nude in her drab room, cooking some broth on her hot plate; she gets up from her chair and slips into a robe; she returns to her chair--and again, suddenly, it is a new day, and we watch Paul as he pulls up to the cafe...
...King welcomed Kazimi, then turned to greet his nephew. At that moment the prince drew a revolver from his robe and shot the King twice in the head. He fired a third time, missed and threw the gun away. Faisal crumpled to the floor. Bodyguards wielding gold swords and submachine guns seized the prince. The King was rushed to a nearby hospital; shortly after noon an announcer on Radio Riyadh, his voice sobbing with emotion, said that Faisal was dead. Soon after, Radio Riyadh reported that the royal family had chosen Crown Prince Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz to succeed...
...MOVIE OPENS with a shot of Emmanuelle staring out of the window; it is raining outside and her robe is sheer and diaphanous. The phone rings, Emmanuelle glides over, answers it, and as she sits down her robe falls open from the waist. And the ads promised. "X was never like this...
Ignoring the incredible flabbiness and indefiniteness of Schlesinger's language--the relationship of "word" and "reality," the "attack on reason," the "conviction of historical responsibility"--we get a whiff of the type of democracy he endorses:the cult of the intellectual, a noblesse not of the robe or the sword but of the word protecting the nation from the dragon of unreason that threatens political discourse. "Let intellectuals never forget that all they that take the word shall perish with the word," Schlesigner eloquently tells us, and as for the rest of society, well, let them eat paragraphs...