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Fonda is often wonderful to watch in what amounts almost to one American monument impersonating another. He works with a master's skill at understatement. The trouble is that the audience is apt to come away more instructed than entertained. David Rintels' script smacks of American hagiology: "I speak for the poor, the weak," says Fonda, sounding perilously like the Statue of Liberty. For all Fonda's skill and Darrow's charm, the mind wanders sometimes, as during the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest...
...result was strangely pictorial sculpture: freestanding but often flat as a relief, sometimes unintelligible when walked round. The figures are meant to be seen from the front, as if drawn up on their massive bases beneath an imaginary proscenium arch. From the back they are apt to disintegrate into a welter of craggy texture and bronze lumps. They insist always on a specific remoteness from the viewer...
...Joyce," said George Bluestone in Novels Into Films, "would seem as absurd on film as Chaplin would in print." Chaplin is probably not the most apt comparison to Joyce--Fellini or Bergman are more appropriate. One would be hard put to translate 8 1/2 or Persona into print and still maintain any semblance of the original. Yet, in 1967 Joseph Strick and Fred Haines courted disaster by writing a screen adaptation for James Joyce's Ulysses. The absurdity of the undertaking provides a perfect example of the irreconcilable differences between the two media. Ulysses, published in 1922, was hailed...
...RECENT President of Harvard when asked for the primary qualification of a college president replied, "a belief in God." Despite this opinion, religiosity is not the primary characteristic of the current age. It is one of the least apt descriptions of contemporary Cambridge...
...adjective great, debased in American museum parlance by the relentless way in which curators are apt to apply it to their latest snuffbox, does apply here. The reason is quite simple...