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...generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal renderings...
...Andrews), and indicates the high level of photographic composition and lighting in the interiors. A later confrontation between Eberlin and his Russian colleague Pavel (superbly played by Per Oscarrson) uses both lens and set distortion to accentuate the plot tension, creating the film's only interesting relationship despite its vain efforts to generate suspense from the conflict between Eberlin and his inhuman associate Gattis (Tom Courtenay). Mia Farrow, as Eberlin's naive girlfriend, looks interesting about every fourth shot, mishandles some dreadful dialogue about sex and photography (the two seem to go hand-in-hand these days), and wears Pierre...
Western journalists usually knock in vain at that door with its peephole at 2 Rue Leverrier, a short walk from the house where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court. Bo entertains other visitors, however, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping pungent tea. His handsome wife, Pham Thi Ky, 43 (no kin to Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from...
...what in the present perspective seems like a decidedly minor news event: the peace march and militant demonstration in Washington last October. Mailer does indeed cover all the accepted journalistic steps, from the ceremonial handing-in of draft cards at the Department of Justice to the activists' vain roughhouse attempts to storm the Pentagon...
...Chatterbox, to which he contributed countless drawings and a flood of articles and light verse, not the least of which was a poem called "Child's Question": "O, is it true/ A word with Q/ The usual U/ Does lack?/ I grunt and strain, /But, no, in vain, /My weary brain/ Iraq." He also earned straight A's. His mother, leafing through an anthology of prizewinning short stories calculated that more prizewinning authors had gone to Harvard than any where else, and thereupon dispatched John to Cambridge, where he was given a full scholarship...