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...thief sans trust fund ends up with his loot. The rich old Social Scientists who set both of them up want to settle the old Nature versus Nurture debate, where Nature means playing the blind beggar to get spending money and Nurture seems to mean stiff suits and wood panelling. It's too predictable to waste time with the ending and too difficult to give Murphy and Ackroyd credit for carrying a tired concept to first-rate comedy...
...subjects talk about death, murder, suicide in the thousands; they describe the stench of rotting and burning flesh; they recall the feeling of human hair in their hands as theywere compelled to shave those condemned to murder; they describe the feeling of carrying stiff corpses rigid from the gas chambers. At most one could attempt to convey the feeling of watching it, of listening to people speak about unspeakable horrors which they have themselves experienced. In nearly 10 hours, (the film is shown in two halves, on separate nights) there is not a slow moment, not a gratuitous detail...
...ridden. "The more sophisticated, the more technologically advanced we become, and the more we feel we can dominate nature," he mused, "the more we feel that it's one of those difficult ironies to bear that we should actually depart and shuffle off this mortal coil." After years of stiff formality, he yearns for simple verities, and talked longingly about the rewards of working with his hands on a farm in Cornwall. "I think it's terribly therapeutic, funnily enough, and there's something very important about working on land and actual manual labor, mucking out cattle yards, you know...
...miles came the ascent over the Queensboro Bridge, taking us out of Queens and into Manhattan. Going uphill and facing a stiff headwind, I slowed my pace...
...Many liquor stores were closed, and business hours in the remainder were reduced from eight to five. The government banned sales of hard liquor on weekends (wine and champagne may be sold after 2 p.m.) and restricted restaurants to serving 100 grams of spirits, the equivalent of two stiff drinks, with each meal. Some Soviet officials even began toasting visitors with fruit juice...