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The author is not pompous. A typical sentence, suitable for diagramming, goes like this: "He was a good student, and although he was well liked by his classmates, he was not a joiner or an activist." Solid stuff, with a sensible content exactly suited to its style. Three hundred pages...
So the film wanders aimlessly from the hills of Wales, to the streets of Paris, to the lakes of Switzerland, but it really goes nowhere at all. It is not that one would want powerful intellection or epic scope or even moral paulon from Truffaut. One would merely like something...
A happier mood suffuses a stroll grandmother takes with her tiny grandson. "What will you be when you grow up, and where will I be than?" she questions the oblivion 1st, with a wistful but optimistic view of the future. Her strongest link with the future, although the successfully hiden...
THE POLITICAL TERRAIN is no longer as favorable for Thieu as it was in those wistful days of late 1968 and early 1969. The North Vietnamese say that they have done everything humanly possible to speed the peace talks toward a settlement. The Provisional Revolutionary Government accepted on September 11...
As in previous novels like Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room and, more recently, Intensive Care, the author examines conventional attitudes toward death with both satire and wistful poetry. Talbot's parents, for example, respond to mortality by rushing an elderly relative into a nursing home with a sigh...