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...Board members of Gulf Oil are not stupid. They knew from the first that there would be public opposition to their economic links with the Portugese colonialists. They went ahead because, in the words of Cabinda Gulf manager Robert F. Ward, the Cabinda oil strike is "one of the major growth areas of the Corporation." The Cabinda fields are estimated to have reserves of at least 300 million tons, and they will gush at the rate of 150,000 barrels a day for forty years. And given the low labor costs if Portugese rule continues, that will...
Moreover, Winner wants the audience to believe that the children (aged about 9 and 11) regard any thing Quint says as literally true. Chil dren are often cruel but rarely that stupid. Quint lapses into a sodden, brogue-trotting Irishman, who mumbles to Miles, "If you love someone, sometimes you really want to kill them." Pow! Wilde! The governess drowns in the tarn - from an acute case of sabotaged rowboat. Quint is struck down, like St. Sebastian, by Miles' bow and arrow...
...Rade Markovic as Yanos conveys the full range of his character's emotions and turns of personality without losing sight of the fisherman's basically uncommunicative nature. Milena Dravic portrays the wife as simple and innocent of her husband's lust without allowing her to appear to be simply stupid. Her pleasure in having a companion forms a perfect counterpoint to Yanos turbulent feelings towards the intruding girl...
...Mexico, blossoms on both screens. Edith leans forward to watch with aggressive intentness. "She's going to be on David Frost and David Susskind," someone says. Marmon: "Will she sing or talk?" Sher wood: "She'll sing. She can't talk. She's too stupid...
...suggestive remark by Ruth, Lenny wails--almost as if he spoke for the audience: "Is that a proposition? Damn it, was that a proposition or wasn't it?" We demand that everyone fit in a well-known category: The whore, the kindly old man, the pimp, the vain and stupid boxer (Joey)--and Pinter shoots it all out from under us as soon as we think we know...