Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When, as sometimes happens, a stranger comes to Uncle's, the boys will try and hustle him. The technique is to surround him, give him a cue (if he's not careful he plays a ball without noticing there is no tip on the stick), and then bully, beg, and flatter him into playing for half dollars. The kids are not particularly good at hustling or pool. Many of the old men in overcoats who lounge all day along Hanover Street or Salem Street could run the table on the best of them. As for hustling, hustling is a subtle...
...does not stir for the stranger. He has enough to treat his friends and, more important, one doesn't go scuttling all over the room every time the door opens. After a time he is by the stranger's side, not questioning, waiting to be informed. He is informed, and whatever the stranger proclaims himself to be will be magnified in the retelling, for even Vic gains by association with important...
...this slapstick comedy, even the Occupation takes second place to the preoccupation-cherchez la femme. The plot is as old as Gaul, and only a new director would have the gall to tell it again: the sleepy middle-aged husband, the nubile wife, the young stranger (Henri Garcin). But Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 33, has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon souffl...
This leads, in The Circular Ruins, to "a temple, devoured by an ancient conflagration, profaned by the malarial jungle, its god unhonored now of man." A stranger arrives, impelled there by the desire "to dream a man. He wanted to dream him in minute totality and then impose him on reality." The stranger succeeds, only to be assailed by the fear that his creation will discover its source...
...projection of another man's dream-what incom parable humiliation!" A fire blooms in the forest, and the stranger, calmly accepting death, walks into the flames. But they do not burn: "With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he, too, was all appearance, that someone else was dreaming...