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...tourist trade. Because it has been so ill-favored by nature, it has a tranquillity few other islands in the Mediterranean can boast. In the past several years, wealthy Italians eager to avoid the vulgar crowds at Capri or Amalfi have discovered it. So have moviemakers. Except for the untoward events of World War II, about the only thing of note that has happened in Pantelleria in the past 2,000 years or so was the shooting of a pornographic movie, Thank You, Mrs. P., two summers ago. Now, however, the islanders are worried about an even more serious threat...
...argument for the essential "degree of privacy normal people require" to Ford himself. An off-duty President constantly trailed by battalions of reporters and photographers is effectively walled off from normal human experience. "Sure," Broder concedes, "some reporters must be present in case of a sudden development or untoward incident. But it doesn't require 60 of the best journalists in America to stand on the slopes at Vail when Mr. Ford goes skiing, in order to keep the American people informed about the work of the President...
...been preserved, especially in Nick Carraway's narration, but it only gives the film a stilted, stuffy tone that is reinforced by the dialogue. Fitzgerald wrote dialogue to be read, not said; and the Coppola screenplay (much rejuggled by Director Clayton) treats Fitzgerald's lines with untoward reverence. When Daisy sighs, "We were so close in our month of love," she sounds like a kid in a creative-writing course reading her first short story aloud...
This view begins to sour under her brother's increasingly critical examination. Lesley has arrived unexpectedly from college, upending previous plans, and then left her Westchester home almost immediately for the Long Island estate of wealthy cousins Phil and Helene. Nicky, his suspicions aroused by a string of untoward happenings, gradually unravels the incredible story: his cute older sister is a killer...
...Borana in Kenya and Ethiopia, for instance, regard eclipses as an evil omen. Even if nothing untoward happens after the event, they may use it as an excuse to kick out any unpopular ritual leaders, called Kallu...