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...work out their gentlemanly battle plans, forsaking guns-it's hard-cheese for the armed robber who gets caught-recruiting specialists in such arcane subjects as railroad engineering and advanced electronics. After the loot is lifted, the film collapses into a text-bookish story of police procedure, as Scotland Yard tries to run the thieves to earth...
...U.S.S.R.), where, at the age of nine, he was set to work in a cap factory by his father, who spent his own days studying at a synagogue. David mar ried a fellow capmaker, Betsy Pushkin, and 13 years later with his wife and a growing family moved to Scotland, where, at her insistence, he sat down at his sewing machine and started his own capmaking business. He later expanded the line to blazers, frocks-and, inevitably, kilts...
...Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A more subtle Jungian notion is that Gog (i.e., man) is not only himself but also the sum of the past of the whole race. The naked amnesiac on the shores of Scotland must relive the whole of history before he can find the structure of his own soul. History being what it is, this is a bleak and troubling thought...
...rails. If the home market had gone sour, they wondered, why not look abroad, where English-style pubs seem increasingly popular. After all, says Costick, in some U.S. pseudo-pubs, "they even have a tartan in the act, because they are not sure what is England and what is Scotland...
...comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh. "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall," the song continues. I.E., now they know that...