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...never understood, shrugs Carol Burnett, the success of her CBS variety show: "When a good movie is on, I watch it instead." But audiences always loved hard-luck Eunice and the other antic victims Burnett has played for eleven years, 286 programs. Alas, The Carol Burnett Show signs off the air this week. "It's classier to leave before you're asked to go," says Burnett. How does she explain her durability on the tube? Maybe, she says, it is because she has a "tinge of being amateurish" and is just an ordinary "whitebread woman." Audiences might...
Cunningham's dances are by no means characterless, either. Characters develop intrinsically within the framework of the dance rather than by external predefinition. Individual Cunningham works reflect a wide range of moods from the disturbing power of "Winterbranch" to the high-spirited kookiness of "Antic Meet" to the hints of loneliness and entrapment in "Place." Cunningham's work turns out to be not so much a denial of meaning as a trust in implicit meaning and in individual perception...
...script. Scarcely a weak spot mars a production graced by excellent acting, good direction, and an appropriately ramshackle set. Miller is superb in a part that requires precise deadpan delivery and a facility for comic monologue--conditions Miller, with his resonant voice, fulfills admirably. His facile transitions from the antic to serious help to underline the serious intent of this comedy...
...Obscure Object is not quite as good as Discreet Charm (1972) and Tristana (1969), the two Buñuel masterpieces it most resembles, the problem is one of tone. The new film opens on a note of antic humor only to turn, in the second half, unrelievedly grave: as Mathieu and Conchita's relationship lapses into sadomasochistic games, Buñuel's irony gives way to a surprising display of personal despair. The sudden shift in mood does not work, but it is forgivable. Having given his life to one of the century's great artistic revolutions...
Like Perelman, he is antic, satirical and civilized. At commencement time, college graduates are traditionally welcomed into "the fellowship of educated men." Tom Stoppard uncondescendingly treats all playgoers as part of that fellowship. T.E. Kalem