Word: whats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the recent past, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer has been notorious for the fustian message movie (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Ship of Fools). But in his adaptation of Robert Crichton's bestseller he has wisely opted for entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a...
At the start, Ginsberg shows a flicker of humor-which is more than can be said for his actors. When Joe (Rip Torn) tells a masochistic nymph that "there are only two or three ways," she volunteers brightly: "I could talk to a friend on the phone while you'...
Freedom, then, is what the book is finally about. Fashionably, but compellingly, Fowles sees freedom not as an escape but a return-a return to a more natural order, to a more fundamental morality of self-discovery and self-fulfillment. The same is true, Fowles seems to be saying, of...
If Fowles had it as a child, it was the only sign he did have of his future profession. The son of a suburban cigar importer, he went to an English public school. "I enjoyed it, played cricket well and was successful." In fact, he became head boy, "a very...
The central figure is 1st Lieut. Marius Catto. The 24-year-old lieutenant is an orphan who feels that the Union Army is his first real home, a bumbling but compassionate leader, an idealistic virgin consumed by lust. Catto manages to get himself shot in the shoulder by Martin mainly...