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...second thought, maybe those who aren't Vic and Sade fans should stay away. The rest of us, though, may soon find ourselves referring to our offspring as "dust mop" and "down-spout," or walking through the front door at home with a soft "Hi de hi, ho de ho." · Jack Keil
Most of the characters are hysterical too much of the time for anything meaningfully comic to occur. It's like a prolonged night-club sketch. Andy and Norman know how to wisecrack like second-rate Henny Youngmans, and use this to put Sophie at a disadvantage. She can only spout whatever middle-Americanisms that the New York Jewish quipster-author felt right for the moment. I would for the life of me like to recount some dialogue for the record, but it is all so inert, so clearly the work of a hack intent on a string of easy laughs...
...Sears, Roebuck ones, with precise, naive drawings instead of the color pictures you find today." Thtfse catalogues define a dreamworld of real consumer goods; Carelman's show presents an actual world of fantasy goods. The 50 creations on display include a masochist's coffeepot with the spout over the handle, thus guaranteeing a scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with a handle so bent that nobody...
KUBRICK, however, removes the ambivalence of the Burgess viewpoint, and weights all material on Alex's side. The people whom the gang beat up are ugly or ridiculous--they spout cant about the lack of law and order or assume mere postures of fear. Alex still gets to screw two teen-age girls, but here he doesn't first get them drunk or shoot them up with horse. Kubrick makes his representatives of the state not only bland, but sexually randy. Most important for audience emotion-letting: out of all the victims seen, only Alex suffers. Kubrick has, in general...
...measure. I.Q. tests are because a correlation exists between a student's I.Q. score and his performance in our society. In short, I.Q. tests are designed to predict success. So to say, as Herrnstein says at great length, that people with high I.Q.'s succeed in America is to spout a tautology and say nothing...