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Schickel's use of the word "daring" to describe this movie is inappropriate...
Nixon was a Washington Senators fan until eight years ago. When the team left town in 1971, Nixon pronounced himself "heartbroken" and switched loyalties to his "home town" Angels, whose Anaheim stadium is 35 miles from San Clemente. True to his word, the former President has shown up regularly at Angel games, autographing baseballs and copies of his memoirs. This year he bought four season tickets, and informed management: "Since you've obtained Carew we know you are making every effort to bring a winner here, and we want to support you." Nixon attended 20 games, 14 of which...
What happened? The first clue appears on the title page, where the word LETTERS is built up from a welter of small letters that, when properly viewed, spell the following: "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself actual." Letters made up of letters, fiction made up of fictions, Chinese boxes diminishing to emptiness. Such diminution is what the novel is about. The 772 pages that follow thus constitute a stunningly obsessive exercise in inflatio ad absurdum...
...stuck. I have to call this film beautiful. There is no other word for it that isn't equally overused. It was magnificent, stupendous, moving, and had a profound effect on my soul. It was sensitive. And it makes me think perhaps I may have been overly sensitive about sensitive, beautiful films. Maybe I shouldn't have avoided so many of them. Then again, maybe this one was a rare act of genius...
...been around for more than 20 years and no one has said a word about it. It's been a tool for medical, biochemical and physical research in Cambridge the whole time...