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...think Vaughan is a little bit of a bore," Caroline said. "Really, the language has deteriorated so much since Donne...
...Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia has taken on such challenges before, and managed to deal with such themes as poverty, fascism and dictatorship by translating all of them into a framework of sex. In The Empty Canvas, Moravia has overreached himself. He has made sex itself a bore...
...Dino is a failed artist whose canvas is literally empty. Life is a bore, boredom equals artistic impotence. Enter Cecilia. From then on, the empty canvas scarcely matters because Dino's bed is always full...
...sharpest criticism is selfcriticism, since admen by nature are searching and articulate. Much of the internal questioning comes from members of newer and smaller agencies, often specializing in luxury and prestige accounts, that deplore the hard-sell techniques used to merchandise the big mass products. "Advertising is a bore," snaps Fred Papert, chairman of Manhattan's Papert, Koening Lois. "People don't pay attention to advertising. The trouble is that a lot of agency people have the idea that the public is a bunch of clods-and they write ads accordingly." Howard Gossage, whose Weiner & Gossage spread...
James and William Goldman) shoots its best line in the title. In three acts, this small-bore saga of the peacetime army in the mid-'50s rarely hits a comic target that has not already been riddled in the long and simple-minded annals of G.I. humor...