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...most extreme form. Sensing that his lover is not on a plane where he can communicate directly to her, he can only describe her attributes. In the next two verses he elaborates a male and a female principle; he characterizes her father as overseeing "his kingdom, so no stranger does intrude," and one is reminded of one of the few pictures that exist of Sara Dylan, being sheparded through a crowd of photographers and reporters by her husband at the Isle of Wight...
...poet--he confuses the husband, Lewis Fielding, with the author of Tom Jones--but that is about the only thing they know. He is intriguing to them in their boredom and he is a sop to their material guilt. Berger bluntly tells the husband that he, the stranger, is doing them a favor by sponging on them and thereby quieting their uneasy consciences. In addition, this complete intruder appeals to the husband's fears about his wife's faithfulness. Fielding the writer would rather make the adultery come about in a situation he can manipulate, rather than endure the passive...
...from a casino to her hotel. As she reaches the lobby, the telephone is ringing--it is her husband, calling to check up on her for the nth time. She is annoyed, and short with him: "The lift is here. Good-bye." She gets into the elevator with the stranger. The camera cuts to a scene inside the ascending lift, where two people are beginning to make love in the flickering half-light. The wife's eyes are closed, her neck arched back. We cannot see the man's face clearly. The scene shifts abruptly the disgruntled husband...
...Hustler. She ran into her bedroom and thrust the gun into the hands of her startled husband. McKinnon, finally awake, covered the stranger, sending his wife downstairs to call the police. McKinnon then discovered that Knight had died of multiple stab wounds. He and the intruder grappled, and the man ran into the hallway and jumped into the elevator with Rosemary. The man threw Rosemary to the floor and flailed at her with a knife. She fought for her life by kicking up at him. Although she suffered two wounds, she was able to run off the elevator when...
Sissela is not a stranger to the limelight; from childhood on she's never known a day of anonymity. Yet she is not herself among a group of faceless cocktail conversationalists. She trys hard and bears through it all, joining intellectual discussions whenever possible...