Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest put on by the local English-speaking community and co-produced by Joyce. Stoppard's Carr is a rambling codger in a floor-length dressing gown as he tells us Stoppard's story in flash-backs, wreathing himself in cigarette smoke as he pounds out a travesty of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata whenever he wants the audience to realize he is saying something meant to be profound...
...private life-style matches his professional modesty. Father of four (a fifth child died last year), he lives inconspicuously in an unpretentious house in suburban Maryland. He does not smoke, drinks only an occasional gin-and-tonic or glass of wine, and is a devout Catholic. His favorite recreations are sailing and bicycling...
...doesn't drink except for a "very occasional" scotch and water. He doesn't smoke. He drinks milk three times a day. He goes to church every Sunday. And he voted for Nixon...
Esposito had good reason to invoke the smoke-filled rooms-and the grand old names-of the past. The slate of party regulars he had so painstakingly helped put together had just been spectacularly smashed by Democratic insurgents, who managed to find fresh and personal ways of appealing to the electorate. The key results...
...middle of a scene but somehow away from it, floating in the smoke above. It's like a child up in bed when his parents are having a party--the rise and swell of the voices and cocktail clinks downstairs lapping up and down like the sea. The kid knows more than they do. The reviewer who said they thought that the stoned members of the audience found California Split too fast to follow was dead wrong. It's movie to swim...