Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting of Mr. Bruce and his cohorts which...
...Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope's suitors has its counterpart in Bloom's casting from his mind scruples and false sentiment about himself and Molly. Almost every detail of the Odyssey's action can be found, in disguised form, in Ulysses...
...which no one else ever swam though several able swimmers have been drowned trying. Carried away by the current as he was foolishly trying to swim across the river to the Canadian shore, he emerged safely after being boiled and tossed the whole length of the rapids and the whirlpool below...
...Whirlpool," now at the Hollis Street Theatre, can be classified as a rather weak melodrama whose salvation lies only in convincing and intelligent acting on the part of the two young stars, Doris Dalton, and Shirling Oliver...
...evolutionary futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin...