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...been. The first scene, where husband, wife and wife's lover trade epigrams, has some of the flavor of the early Noel Coward-without, unfortunately, Coward's fine, glyptic phrasing. Describing an earthquake that has just killed 20 million Italians, Wintermouth mourns "Poor Italy. Shaped like a boot, and the heel fell off." Madeline Kahn, however, can make even the most ordinary lines sound like Coward...
...case against flaunted connaisseurship did not emerge until he brought the film to Cambridge last weekend. It came during the event surrounding the premiere--at a press conference the morning before the opening and a midnight Q and A session after. The groupies grouped. The sycophants psycho-fantasized. The boot-lickers jostled for position...
...ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids to give this stale ham-and-egger a chance in an engagement on which millions are riding. It is not merely improbable in a time when even a legitimate challenger like Ken Norton, who is a movie star to boot, does badly on closed-circuit TV, it is preposterous. One really cannot deal with such a howler and at the same time interest oneself fully in Rocky's quest for a moral victory (staying on his feet a full 15 rounds with the champion). It is too bad. Rocky...
...finally interested in pinning "blueness" to the wall, but in suggesting what is truly "blue" in the realm of art. Not, he insists, the vivid depiction of sexual activity. Literature can convey only a mechanical imitation of the real thing-and offer a skewed reality to boot: "I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing." Instead of their lovers, Gass wants writers to caress their language...
...last season's Yale game hero, senior kicker Mike Lynch, needs to crank 11 more points over the crossbar to boot Richie Szaro '71 out as Harvard's all-time kick-scoring leader...