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...Sexless Nag. McMurphy is an ambiguous character whose motives are never quite clear. Like revolutionaries who operate on a larger political stage, McMurphy may be acting out of idealism or he may have found a socially acceptable cover for profound psychopathy−or both. Kesey also understood that a belief in the possibility of rebellion is essential to modern man, a fallback position that can be taken up when despair threatens to turn into self-destruction. It is to restore that faint possibility for his fellow inmates that McMurphy ultimately acts without understanding what he is doing. The revolt...
...just as the struggle seems hopeless, the world beyond the wall opens up, and they escape into a world "which might present them with anything"--they walk "out of this collapsed little world into another order of world together." It is the narrator, the old sexless observer, who sees the way to this world of unlimited possibility; but Emily, transmuted into an earthmother, is the one who finally leads the rest. Emily, sure of her love and adulthood, has taken her place in a new order. The narrator can only watch and wonder as "the last walls" dissolve...
...than in the old, notwithstanding the director's apparent intentions. Her love affair is surely no more profound and emotionally fulfilling a relationship than her marriage, as she simply embraces the first man who appears to be everything her husband is not: refined, tender, clean, skilled. Northern Italian, and sexless. Clara has merely exchanged docile acceptance of her place in the home for the equally passive but more glamorous image of middle-class femininity, hoping to pick up dignity and culture with the furs and cosmetics she acquires from her new friends. Here De Sica's uncritical portrait of Clara...
...without comedy. Like Valerie, Mary Tyler Moore is a lapsed Catholic and an early starter. The day after she graduated from high school in Los Angeles, where her father worked for a utility company, the young actress won her first TV assignment. She was unforgettable as Happy Hotppint, a sexless elf in appliance commercials. "Nothing can surpass the thrill when I saw myself on television," she remembers. "In fact, I was so excited I almost forgot about the pain. I was supposed to be a flat-chested neuter elf. Well, I wasn't flat-chested, and it was painful...
...sexless marriage that resulted takes the short-lived nature of sexual attraction into account and makes infidelity the expected element of variety instead of the shocking, common thing it is now. marriage should stop being an attempt to shut out all the world but one, Nicolson contends; the alternative is a nation of divorcees...