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Father Ronald Knox once observed, "The humorist runs with the hare; the satirist hunts with the hounds." Baying through this Russian blizzard of hilarity, Woody Allen, former rabbit, is at least trying to create a beagle. The fact that most of the time it comes out bagel should not discourage him. In any Allen film there can be only one winner: the viewer. · Stefan Kanfer...
Leaving Chatanooga, the weather tilted. We left the dream-like Florida mid-eighties and met head-on the ominous fringe of a Northern blizzard. Further ahead in Tennessee lay a vicious front of unending rain and tornadoes looking for barns to rip apart. Nick didn't talk much by then. He took over the driver's seat in a trance, driving steadfastly, relentlessly drawn toward the source of his $200 phone bills...
...jerky stop-and-start picture: there is Sam's wife, who hears the mouth-breathing of people sleeping and feels the eyes in the dark of the sleeping hall and can't make love: his daughter, who has adapted to her crowded world like a serene snowflake in a blizzard, whom he cannot understand; his father, being twisted and contorted and shook to death by Parkinson's disease; his mother, who believed that humanity was perfectible and gave herself to a life of committees for improvement, and cried when she came home every day--the face she was obliged...
...steam that becomes a cloud of suspicion and hidden motives; it pulls out of the station like a great ocean liner out of port, its wheels grinding out screams that are the counterpoint to murder and conspiracy. Finally, the Express stops dead in the middle of a Yugoslavian blizzard that turns the entire screen white for just a moment. The train is utterly isolated, one of those Agatha Christie devices--like the island cut off from civilization in And Then There Were None or the remote country house in The Mousetrap--that are patently ridiculous but serve as the ground...
...President Gerald Ford packed his bags last week for a ten-day skiing holiday in Colorado, yet another blizzard of bad news about sales, prices, jobs and profits swept down on the U.S. It brought fresh evidence, if any were needed, that the President has some urgent and complex decisions to make next month about how-and how far -to shift his strategies for dealing with deepening recession, continuing inflation and energy problems...