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...headstrong Iraqi like, and Kassem himself could use a boost to his sagging popularity. Since the attempt on his life, he no longer cruises about in his old Chevrolet station wagon; he now rides in a bulletproof ZIM. His public appearances are limited to ten minutes each, and no stranger is allowed within 20 yards of him. In Baghdad, for the first time, there is even an occasional wisecrack about...
...love scene in The Lovers is, according to publicity, the longest in screen history. It is also, very likely, the most amusing. After bringing together under one roof, husband and wife, lover and stranger, after lingering over dinner, then coffee, and then brandy, the movie finally settles down to business...
...wife, having avoided both her husband's and her lover's bed, steps outside to survey the night. She is confronted, of course, by the stranger, and as the narrator points out, "one small glance and love is born." The two express this new found emotion rather strangely and athletically. The heroine, clad in filmy white, and her new love, more suitably dressed for the long hike ahead of them, set out over hill and dale, under fences, over bridges, through meadows, until finally, faint from fatigue, they float gently downstream in a skiff. Having recovered strength, the two hike...
...Despair. It was in 1942, when all humanity "stood at the open door of Hell," that France first heard of him, in his bleak first novel, The Stranger, set in a death cell, and then in a collection of essays, The Myth of Sisyphus, where Camus explained his doctrine of the absurd. Its first words are: "There is but one truly serious philosophical question, and that is suicide," and its conclusion is that in a world with no God, man's only hope is to keep the absurd alive, and thus suicide is unthinkable. Because Camus articulated despair...
...There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books." wrote Georg Lichtenberg, an 18th century German aphorist. "Printed by people who don't understand them, sold by people who don't understand them, bound, criticized, and read by people who don't understand them, and now even written by people who don't understand them." A look at the current bestseller list (see p. 84) gives Lichtenberg the air of a prophet. The fiction crop is one of the poorest in years. Items...