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...almost as disappointing as the rest of the movie. Where the director seems confused about what he is satirizing, Bates seems confused about what he is saying. He hams up the funny parts too much, and, although Tony Quinn is not here to overshadow him, he still seems to wander through the rest...
Orange. And Tony has the freedom and the privacy to wander down to his sparsely furnished basement workroom, which looks very much like a draftsman's workshop with its cardboard models, drawing board, slide rules, and rolls of blueprints...
...come about that a man born poor, losing his mother at birth and soon deserted by his father, afflicted with a painful and humiliating disease, left to wander for twelve years among alien cities and conflicting faiths, repudiated by society and civilization, repudiating Voltaire, Diderot, the Encyclopédi and the Age of Reason, driven from place to place as a dangerous rebel, suspected of crime and insanity, and seeing, in his last months, the apotheosis of his greatest enemy-how did it come about that this man, after his death, triumphed over Voltaire, revived religion, transformed education, elevated...
Jessie is only one of the daydreamers who wander through this inventive, whimsical first novel about private rebellions in suburbia. Jay, 22, has given up everything to become the disciple of a crackpot who makes clandestine radio broadcasts about morality. Cathy, aged 12, is trying to decide whether God goes around naked or lives in a cemetery. Ethel, 23, hears voices, hates her husband, resents her baby, and is determined to become a prostitute in her spare time. And there is Teddy, the five-year-old prodigy who is Author Constable's hero. Teddy uses geodesies to keep track...
...loaded with wristwatches, diamonds or electronic equipment. An applicant for a government contract in New Delhi may find his documents interminably lost between offices unless he helps them along with "speed money" for well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts...