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...novel, Thackeray used a torrent of words to demonstrate Barry's lack of self-knowledge. Narrating his own story, Barry so obviously exaggerates his claims to exemplary behavior that the reader perceives he is essentially a braggart and poltroon. Daringly, Kubrick uses silence to make the same point. "People like Barry are successful because they are not obvious-they don't announce themselves," says Kubrick. So it is mainly by the look in Ryan O'Neal's eyes-a sharp glint when he spies the main chance, a gaze of hurt befuddlement when things go awry...
...streets are wider and more regular, and the stadium is bigger and more conventional. People in Baltimore do not take any one game as seriously as Boston fans; there is a sense of permanence and resilience about the Orioles in Baltimore that would be utterly lost to the torrent of flesh that anguishes its way down Brookline Avenue after a Red Sox loss. When the Orioles lose, the boulevard outside does not ring with tragedy. Nothing is as precarious as the short-left field wall in Boston might convince...
...secretary about whether their employer will have crepes with poppy seed or creme Brulee for Sunday breakfast. The dispute is never properly settled. The question, "Who did what to whom?" that was asked and answered with such compassionate precision in Group Portrait is washed out by a torrent of conflicting allegations impossible to reconcile, and by the unresolved issue of just how, why and when Katharina plotted the murder...
...have never seen the movie in its entirety have managed to catch a tantalizing glimpse of the title number--three or four minutes of sheer, unadulterated joy, with Gene Kelly splashing around like an ecstatic, acrobatic duck through foot-deep puddles and grinning idiotically under a rainpipe's torrent...
...Faye having just left him. He sits down on a bench, oblivious to the mob around him. Adore, a child actor, who has been taunting him throughout the movie as a Nazi spy, now appears again to harass him. Homer finally loses control and attacks the boy, unleashing the torrent of violence raging inside him against this city where he came to find his paradise and that has given him only pain and humiliation...