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...harsh about the foibles of acquaintances and even of friends whose memory she holds dear. But when she calls someone a scoundrel or a swine, or describes a "major" unnamed contemporary Russian poet as "an unhappy, downtrodden creature of revolting cowardice," she manages not to sound petty, vindictive or prone to literary backbiting. Her judgments have been shaped by a hard life that has compelled her to see the difference between good, weak and evil...
...them, which he brought 150 miles from his farm in Wapello. While his ten-year-old son Kenny tries the 40-ft. giant slide outside, Grouwinkel and his wife and younger son Michael, 3, spend most of their time watching over their animals in the semidarkness of the swine barn. The three-year-old keeps tapping the hogs with a short stick, in order, his mother says, "to keep 'em awake. Lordy, little Michael keeps those hogs so awake they've hardly had a wink of sleep since we got here...
...feet wide was ripped out of the barrier, and several young men prepared to assault the other side. Their impotence was quickly made clear, however, by an East German soldier, who pointedly reloaded his submachine gun and aimed it at their faces. Scattered shouts of "murderers," "criminals" and "swine" changed to a rhythmic chant of rage and frustration. Eventually West Berlin police arrived and told the crowd to go back to bed. "Ah, they were great, these Berliners, just great," exclaimed a French military policeman who was there...
...follow the right-hand signal of Big Tex-a 52-ft.-high drugstore cowboy statue giving directions in a mechanical voice that sounds like a blend of Charlton Heston and Chill Wills. Then you come upon the preserve of the second Texas: the livestock exhibitions. In the Swine Building, Brobdingnagian hogs slumber peacefully in their stalls. Photographs of the various Quality Pork Champions are posted on a bulletin board in two neat rows, like so many Miss Rheingold winners on a barroom wall. The most frenetic activity takes place in the Livestock Pavilion, where coveralled owners lavish on their animals...
...this is vouchsafed via flash backs. In between such scenes, T.R. is in the hotel room of a nervous, balding, middle-aged automobile salesman from Utica who got her name from the swine who humiliated her. Peter Boyle, as the salesman, and James Caan, as the swine, do the best they can, which is extremely well indeed, but the movie's clumsy feints at sophistication and its grotesque sentimentality prevail. "Do you ever think of writing 'I love you' on the inside of the tires you sell?" T.R. inquires of the salesman, who is understandably unnerved...