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...market's open every Friday and Saturday, but Friday crowds are different from Saturday crowds. On Fridays, the Haymarket is an outdoor grocery store for middle-class Belmont housewives. Saturday is the day for everyone else. Prices are cheapter, shoppers are wilder, and haggling...
...Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder utilized his detailed knowledge of Hollywood decadence in writing the Oscar-winning screenplay to an all-that-glitters-is-not-sequins sunset city epic. William Holden gurgles the narration from his face down predicament in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, but after the devastingly effective shot of Miss Swanson descending the spiral staircase, it is understandable why he chose to watch the action from that vantage point. One gets the feeling that only those who have seen this peculiar type of behavior will appreciate it, and maybe even they wouldn't. Channel...
...might be as an idea, it could not easily be defended against attacks of this sort. The proposal "can't be defended in three minutes or indeed three months," Mankiewicz said. "For a minute of ridicule, you need an hour of serious undivided attention to answer some of the wilder criticisms...
Ibsen's theme is universal. In American terms, it means that Ibsen would approve Sherwood Anderson's vision of the crabbed, tormented, camouflaged souls of Winesburg, Ohio, rather than the blithely idealized innocents of Thornton Wilder's Grovers Corners. In European terms, James Joyce perhaps came closest to Ibsen when he wrote, "Ireland is the old sow that eats its own farrow...
From such mind-boggling ideas it is a short leap to wilder spec ulations. The overwhelming majority of scientists would probably agree with Mathematician Martin Gardner that "modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses." Says Harvard's Owen Gingerich, who is an astronomer as well as a historian of science: "There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash...