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Lila's departure is in one respect a relief to an audience torn between laughing at her buffoonery and crying at her deep anguish. But without her, the movie loses its humanness, and is quickly trivialized into an exchange of bon mots. Neither Lenny nor Kelly has a heart to be broken, and that is precisely the problem. Cybill Shepherd in particular lacks the range of acting emotion necessary to sustain the human relationships at anything more than a superficial level; a serious flaw in the latter part of the film is her inability to warm up to the very...
...typical, alas, Powers bon mot: When the "three-decker Irishman" from Charlestown met the Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, he asked, "Tell me, are you the real Mikoyan...
...fighting anti-Communism but has become in his maturity a surprisingly flexible, even unpredictable statesman. At his side is Kissinger, 49, a Bavarian-born Harvard professor of urbane and subtle intelligence, a creature of Cambridge and Georgetown who cherishes a never entirely convincing reputation as an international bon vivant and superstar. Yet together in their unique symbiosis?Nixon supplying power and will, Kissinger an intellectual framework and negotiating skills?they have been changing the shape of the world, accomplishing the most profound rearrangement of the earth's political powers since the beginning of the cold...
Judge: So you wanted to score a publicity hit and shock the bon bourgeois...
...Thanksgiving Day. "In the article," Kalisher recalls, "Henry Kissinger said he thought the talks should be secret and that he had the means to make them so. I ripped out the article, and wrote the following to him on it: 'Dear Henry: Eat this with your Thanksgiving dinner. Bon appetit...