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...this musical runs long enough to generate word of mouth, the word is likely to be "blah." Not that Goodtime Charley is malignant; it is merely inane. It is not clear how the notion entered the producers' heads that the saga of Joan of Arc raising sword and soldiers to have the Dauphin crowned King of France (while she ultimately dies at the stake) had the makings of a musical comedy. At that crazed moment, they should have consulted an exorcist...
Police also recovered a glided bronze figure of the god of death worth $35,000, as well as a seventh-century Indian ivory-hilted sword, a silver casket, a russian icon, and a religious panel painting of St. Michael...
...case of memorabilia comes next. Among photos of Holmes lies a printed program from "Harvard College Class Day Exercises 21 June. 1861," for which he wrote the class poem. A Harvard Commencement address he delivered in 1911 and various Civil War mementoes. Including his sword, are also here...
WHAT UNITES everything, from the first frame of the film to the last, is the inexorability of revenge. Those who live by the sword may not always die by the sword (Marion Brando died of a heart attack in a tomato garden) but they are forced to go on living by the sword. Vito's father, we learn in the beginning of this film, was an honest man killed by a Sicilian don for refusing to be intimidated, twenty years later. Vito returns to draw an ugly line down the old man's belly with a stiletto. He has succumbed...
Ignoring the incredible flabbiness and indefiniteness of Schlesinger's language--the relationship of "word" and "reality," the "attack on reason," the "conviction of historical responsibility"--we get a whiff of the type of democracy he endorses:the cult of the intellectual, a noblesse not of the robe or the sword but of the word protecting the nation from the dragon of unreason that threatens political discourse. "Let intellectuals never forget that all they that take the word shall perish with the word," Schlesigner eloquently tells us, and as for the rest of society, well, let them eat paragraphs...