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...death? Critic George Steiner answers with a provisional yes in a book that is less remarkable for its conclusions than for its sense, style, erudition and critical verve. At 32, Critic Steiner shapes his definitions and distinctions with mature authority, and shows a kind of Goethian aplomb in stating bald-faced but sometimes neglected truths, as when he writes, "Tragedies end badly...
...film, puts it-"beauty and power and excitement." Hope and Elvis motor up to the state university to bag a scholarship from the friendly old white-haired English professor. On the way back it rains, and, perhaps a bit too cautiously heedful of the fact that the car has bald tires, they take lodging (separate rooms, of course) at a motel. But love blooms through the plasterboard, and some lowlife spreads the news. Scandal breaks loose. Elvis sings several mournful ballads. It all turns out well. At fadeout, Elvis gets all three girls and the scholarship...
embassy residence in Vienna. Out of the residence door, like a broncobuster sprung from his chute, bounded John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He dashed down the steps to meet his bald, fat guest. "How are you?" he asked smilingly. "I'm glad to see you." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev grinned politely and shook Kennedy's hand. Thus, one cold, wet day last week, the youthful leader of the Western alliance greeted the tough leader of world Communism...
Although the medium has made him famous, Dr. Frank Baxter, 65, bald, genial lecturer on Shakespeare and science, had some scornful words for television. "The idiots who run TV ... think people are best pleased at the low, hypnotic and opiate level," he told his last Shakespeare class, as he prepared to retire from the University of Southern California. Said Baxter: "There is no law in America which deprives people of reading...
Usually a bald plot summary does not do justice to a movie; in this case, the resume hangs together better than the original screenplay. The script and Mastroianni's colorless acting do not focus enough attention on Marcello's character to make his fate a compelling subject. Since he is the only character to appear continuously throughout the film, he should have unified and connected the monotonous scenes of debauchery that follow each other in lubricious profusion. Through Marcello's eyes, we see one depraved spectacle after another. Individually these sordid vignettes succeed quite well, but, taken together, they...