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...agent of his undoing is Jean-Paul, a roguish Parisian chauffeur (Jack Lenoir) who sees that the screenwriter is too cubical to make a move toward the very available Hunnicutt character and who does the necessary maneuvering himself. He is a scampish servant of classical comedy, who cleverly manages his master's life without neglecting his own comfort. At the film's end, when the screenwriter threatens to violate the rules of worldliness by falling in love, Jean-Paul saves him from the folly of earnestness by bedding the lady himself. The writer does not take this kindness...
...most Iranians seemed confident that their revolution would succeed. Even among the wealthy or those once loyal to the Shah, there was growing respect for a revolution that had been brought about, not through arms, but through civil disobedience and the sustained withdrawal of labor. Said an Iranian civil servant, himself still loyal to the Shah: "Sometimes there is a revolution from the top and it's not right. This is a revolution from the people, and it's going to be good for the future of Iran. Those people who withdrew their dollars and put them...
...waves. Just 46 years later, Colonist William Phips, born of a poor Maine family, found the Concepción and hauled up 32 tons of silver from the barnacle-encrusted wreck. In return for one-fifth of the find, a grateful King James II of England knighted his noble servant and made him Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But by the time modern sea hunters began looking into the story, a crucial log from Phips' expedition, with compass bearings for the site, had vanished...
...increasingly, parents focused less on a child's eternal fate and more on his making it in this world. Paintings mirrored the change. Children began to look more like-well, children, and were depicted as members of affectionate families. In his portrait of The Strobel Children and Their Servant Boy (1813-14), John Wesley Jarvis shows a young boy tenderly holding his sister. Hers is an expression of contentment, his of protectiveness. Such depictions of sentimentality echoed the views of transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau, who went beyond Locke's tabula rasa theory to proclaim that children...
...quieter moments. James Bundy's Octavius Caesar strikes a few puzzlingly bfzarre, manic notes where he shrieks incomprehensibly and furiously rattles off his lines, but he successfully gives us a consumed, highly charged man of action. Dan Becker as the waterlogged messenger and David Johnson as Antony's loyal servant contribute modestly and well, and Bill Shebar playing Fortune, primly dressed in black, is a slimily ambiguous amalgamation of prophesies and pronouncements...