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...Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn...
Patience, like incest or the mad uncle locked in the attic, is the type of thing everyone has heard about but very few experience. It is usually passed over for the better known works of Gilbert and Sullivan, for it lacks the fire of Feydeau or the mirth of Moliere. Nonetheless, done well, it is an entertainment worthy of note, and at Agassiz, it is being done as well...
...anger would be more revealing. In fact, Mead's dispassionate recital of events that must have hurt her suggests a lifelong flight from personal feeling, and possibly even from people. One of the book's more revealing passages may be the one in which Mead describes her attic office at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History: "It was the kind of room I had always chosen in each house we lived in. Among other advantages, there were two stairways leading up to the tower. This meant that one could creep down one stairway while someone whom...
...gonna hafta leave a little bit sooner." The song seems like a less than graceful exit; he can't take the girl, she's too young, but he's got to go because the weather's bad, "I'm no sun fanatic but it's damp in your attic, and your cat sleeps on my head." But he loves her, "I wouldn't tell you no lie," which is punctuated by a most telling laugh...
...shouts to a passerby, "do you?" She walks on talking in a strained voice: "Well, we're safe and sound at my sister's and it's very nice but my aunt and I we both got it to the second floor and I had to wait in the attic until they got us out. Everybody in my neighborhood got it coming through the second floor ceiling. I haven't got anything." She pauses, then heads off with determination. "But I'm going home...