Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as the stream of self-conscious ness winds down to a thin treacle, the film-and the car-take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...
...swirl of capes and costumes, balloons and special effects, the Potts come to the rescue, triumphing over twin evils: the baron and the score. Written by Robert and Richard Sherman (Mary Poppins), the eleven songs have all the rich melodic variety of an automobile horn. Persistent syncopation and some breathless choreography partly redeem it, but most of the film's sporadic success is due to Director Ken Hughes's fantasy scenes, which make up in imagination what they lack in technical facility. Next to Tiny Tim's hallowed remark, the holiday season's most overworked phrase...
...Deal liberalism directs itself to the wrong problems, so do plans for revolution. "It's not capitalism that's at fault," says Goodwin, "but systematization. It's not the robber baron who's the problem today but the Harvard Business School, organizing for safety....The question of revolution becomes irrelevant. You haven't got the troops. Politics is the only course with any chance of success...
Throwing Temper Tantrums. Here is a Lear with a willful, robber baron strain of not quite legitimate authority. The viewer feels that he has carved out his kingdom just as he proposes to carve up the map of England for his daughters. As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone. Cobb reveals how the fool in Lear is intrinsically a child. This 80-year-old is an eight-year-old in disguise, throwing...
...Macaroni Factory. The current crisis has its origins in the chaotic conditions that prevailed in France after World War II. In 1949, Jean Prouvost, a press baron (Paris-Match, Paris-Soir) as well as France's largest woolens manufacturer, purchased a controlling interest in Figaro. But because he had served briefly in the collaborationist Vichy regime, both Gaullists and leftists opposed letting him assume editorial command. So he signed an agreement with Figaro's noted editor, Pierre Brisson, who had killed off the paper during World War II rather than knuckle under to the Nazis. The agreement gave...