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Critique’s of Sundance allude (sloppily) to Citizen Kane. Redford did not inherit his wealth or power. “This rustic Xanadu and the ideals behind [it] are his way of keeping that decade alive in all its skepticism and sincerity.” Some accused him of “granola” filmmaking.”

Redford write about Sundance in the Harvard Business Review that “people need the chance to see how much agreement is possible.”

I just noticed that page “9” in CloudLibrary is page 3 in Libby. Unfortunately, Robert Redford: The Biography isn’t available right now in Libby, whose layout looks a little more reader-friendly.

Original Sundance faculty: actor Karl Malden, writer Waldo Salt and cinematographer László Kovács

The red ink foreshadows Jonas‘s murder of Montague (1269).

Jonas and Pecksniff play the confidence game (1260) [e.g. greedy listening].

So Pinch didn’t know why Jonas was fleeing Tigg, and when he knows he can keep it a secret if he murders Tigg (1181-2).

How and why did/would Nadgett orchestrate Tom Pinch’s help in apprehending Jonas Chuzzlewit? Did Martin want to educate Tom (1174)?

Tom is to work amongst books (1140).

In Chp. 38, Dickens shifts from Tom Pinch to Nadgett to Tigg Montague to Jonas Chuzzlewit, all while concealing the contents of Nadgett’s writing from us (111).

Nadgett prefers writing over spoken word: “We never know who’s listening” (1100). Apparently, listening is an action often mangled in the performance.

Chp. 38 shifts focus from Tom Pinch to Nadgett, who sees “so much” (1095).

No irony intended by Tom Pinch towards Merry Pecksniff (1083).

Is Tom Pinch making a Sweeney Todd reference (1072).

If not “merry, then “jolly” (1070).

Wages do not give the employer full rights (1067).

Yoho! Tom Pinch is in London (1046).

The key-bugle, 1037-9.

Matthew inverts social order with Mark (1032).

As a girl growing up in OC, D. Keaton was reading Life magazine and noticed the long shadow between Sophia Loren’s breasts. She later learned the shadow had a name: “cleavage” (124).

“Sharp” & “jolly” (1032).

“More corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man” (1021)!

“Home” is an incantation (1020).

America, The Phoenix (1018).

Disregard of small obligations leads to disregard of large obligations, Martin says of Estadounidenses (1000).

Does “jolly” mean “ironic”? (985))

The complexity of Mark Tapley‘s “vain, regret and good resolve” (978).

Chollop warns Mark he’s too “cute” to last in freedom (973).

Old World-New World dispute (970).

“Not worth mentioning” the guns and such. Ha, such satire (970)!