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...Bernard (Peter Kastner) is a little boy who grows up absurd, wavering between his girl friends (Elizabeth Hartman, Karen Black) and his parents (Geraldine Page, Rip Torn). Though the farce is sometimes forced, this first big-league effort by Writer-Director-Producer Francis Ford Coppola suggests bigger things to come...
...wear [pause] underwear [pause] which moves with me [pause]. It [pause] captures your attention." It does indeed. And so does just about everything that happens in Harold Pinter's Broadway play The Homecoming (TIME, Jan. 13). The drama is strictly Theater of the Absurd-opaque, funny here, touching there, deeply disturbing, and in sum the most compelling show in a dreary Broadway season. What helps make it so is the actress in the moving underwear, Vivien Merchant. She also happens to be the wife of Playwright Pinter and the woman who has helped make most of her husband...
...United States has, of course, a family allowance for broken families, the AFDC program. It was past time we came to our senses on the subject, and stopped penalizing families with a father in the home. In that far-off spring of 1965 it appeared we might. It was absurd to think that such a precious moment of legislative opportunity would pass without some measure of income redistribution. A family allowance was surely the most promising candidate. It would have cost $5 to $10 billion per year according to the scheme adopted but we had the money. To have enacted...
When the film focuses on Bernard, all is fair and funny; but there are too many absurd inside bits that become outsize bites, eating away at the film's essential innocence. Michael Dunn as a dwarf actor, Michael O'Sullivan as a one-legged albino hypnotherapist, and Julie...
...with modern times, Tour Guide Gunther sometimes finds the going rough. He often relies on sweeping generalities ("few South Americans have ulcers"), on superlatives (Colombia is "one of the most difficult, complex and contradictory countries in the world"), and there are some oversimplifications that sometimes border on the absurd. "Why is the army so important?" he asks of Brazil. Gunther's answer: "Because it has arms." South America, as Gunther admits, is "difficult to generalize about. It lacks focus." The statistics are not always available-and when they are, they are not always reliable. In taking the continent...