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...that matter, maturity. Nor do Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Tom Kitten or any of the other animals in the watercolor menagerie of Beatrix Potter. The writer was a victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments for the nonconformist. Her artwork is another matter: from childhood, Beatrix commanded a delicate palette and an irrepressible whimsy. Her meticulous brushwork animated an entire barnyard world. The early Disney derives from her fantasies. So do the shenanigans of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck...
Beauty and Mystery. Denne Bart Petitclerc's script drastically compresses and rearranges Hemingway's story. At times this is all to the good: Petitclerc shears away reams of embarrassingly arch, blustery episodes and mannered barroom colloquies. Too often, though, what he salvages tends toward the simplistic and the soapy. This tendency is hardly helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when...
...Mohammed Auda) is a mysterious figure in the P.L.O.'s terrorist operations who is widely believed to have had a key role in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 17 people died, including eleven Israeli athletes (see box). Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon denounced Abu Daoud as an "arch-terrorist" last week; curiously, Israeli intelligence officials-who might have had a special interest in seeing a notorious terrorist apprehended-insisted that since Abu Daoud was now primarily a kind of roving ambassador for the fedayeen movement, he was not on their list of wanted...
...tied John Dunlop, arch-anti-inflator...
AFRENZIED Sherlock Holmes opens his door a crack and peers out at Dr. Watson with sharp, glittering eyes. Years of heavy cocaine consumption have finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure...