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...movie's most effective episodes, two people struggle to communicate. In one scene, a pathetic rugby scout clings to Machin; as he rises, Machin progressively rejects the puzzled old man. Also, Machin and his landlady, Mrs. Hammond, destroy each other. Neither can understand other people--but he approaches them aggressively while she withdraws from them completely. Their affair reflects this difference: he is brutal when they first make love, and she must be forced into this act as into all contacts. Their problems seem especially acute compared with another rugby player's happy romance; in fact, Machin and Mrs. Hammond...
Iced Tea & Bourbon. Bill's drinking was such common gossip in Oxford that when he tried to organize a Boy Scout troop one winter he was denounced as unfit by the minister of the Baptist Church. But most of his drunks, says Brother John, were just play acting. He would go for weeks without taking a drink and then a call would come from his wife Estelle that it was time to come and "sober Billie up." That job usually fell to Mother Faulkner, a tiny, fiercely energetic woman who understood Billie's desire to be waited...
Accompanying Secretary of State Dean Rusk on his Russian trip, Western newsmen last week got their first glimpse of Nikita Khrushchev's seaside hideaway. It made the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port look like a Boy Scout bivouac...
...every opportunity he battles a bottle, slugs a stooge, and generally behaves as though a man's-capacity could be measured in whisky and his importance by his punch. But when a woman appears, Big John looks suddenly small and surrounded by unimaginable terrors, like a Boy Scout trapped in a beauty parlor...
...generation that freed Ireland and has ruled it ever since. At school, he learned his four Rs-in the Dublin of 50 years ago, revolution was part of the curriculum-and by the age of 14 had joined the Republican Na Fianna Eireann, a sort of Boy Scout underground. Two years later, when the Irish Republican Army occupied the Dublin post office at the start of the botched 1916 Easter Week rising, Sean was the youngest rebel of them all, spent four days on the roof with a rifle, waiting for the British to mount an old-fashioned infantry charge...