In Search of Clarity
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For weeks I’ve rushed to the Sunday Calendar listings, to “Moulin Rouge,” to read again “a film that can’t escape the defects of its virtues.”
What a marvelous phrase.
I’m using it daily to describe restaurants, wines, books, autos, politicians. My wife threatens to leave me if I don’t stop. I will try. But first I must know what the phrase means.
I rented the movie for guidance. No luck. Please, Kenneth Turan, or someone, explain before she literally escapes the defects of my virtues.
JOHN SULLIVAN
Sacramento
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