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...Stupid Period. In interviews with TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, both men contrasted their earlier appearances before congressional committees with the present occasion. Said Davies: "It's like the difference between being held up by assailants and being invited to dinner." Neither was vindictive. Pressed to relive the pains of excommunication, Davies said wearily: "That was a stupid period. That's the worst thing you can say. But I've always believed it's futile to think about the past when you can't do anything about it. Some in a similar situation did keep thinking...
Spassky, for one, is reportedly convinced that Fischer will be his challenger. Fischer is convinced of even more. Asked who is the world's greatest player, he unhesitatingly answers: "It's nice to be modest, but it would be stupid if I did not tell the truth. It is Fischer...
...helped tame the West, is facing extinction for obvious reasons: it long ago became outmoded by trains, automobiles and farm machinery. Not worth preserving as game for hunters because it is too easy to track and kill, and not worth preserving for domestic use because it is too wild, stupid and inbred (according to some ranchers), the mustang has long been rounded up and "rendered"-a euphemism for slaughtered-by various entrepreneurs. At first the horse carcasses were valued only as a source of glue, clothing and violin bowstrings. But by 1945, industry recognized that wild horses were a cheap...
Most important, Mann's treatment of the unconsummated affair of man and boy was a metaphor for Europe's decaying society. But Visconti takes the veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage; with stupid distortion, he makes the boy, played by Bjorn Andresen, a flirt whose eyes flash a come-on to his helpless elder, like some midnight cowboy off the Via Veneto. He even concocts an elaborate bordello scene in which Aschenbach is shown as a heterosexual failure-a moment that proves as barren...
...develop ideas about its subject. It lacks any stylistic will to lay things open, to cut apart fictional characters or real societies so we can see better what they are made of. The Cuban Revolution, for example, is presented as the hero's "revenge on the stupid Cuban bourgeoisie-everything I don't want to be." It has no direct presence in his life; he is always buffered from it by this sense or that feeling. Even when the Cuban legal system intervenes in his life, and puts him on trial for rape, Alea presents the whole situation through...