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...Goscinny, 40 (Albert Uderzo, 39, does the drawing). His secret potion, mixed by the druid Panoramix, is to Astérix what spinach is to Popeye. He and Obélix uppercut their foes with such equivalents of "Socko!" as "Tchad" and "Patchoc!" Every page has a brawl, and the puns fly as fast as the fists, whether Astérix and Obélix are smuggling a barrel of the potion into Britannia to aid an ally besieged by the Romans or rescuing Panoramix from the cabbage-eating, goose-stepping Goths...
...poet who could hold a candle to Shakespeare and who was a trouble-maker as well. Marlowe's route is traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder if it was not a put-up job to enable Marlowe to flee the country...
...patients sprawl, wander and sprint across the stage in johnnies and slippers. And a chorus in the tatters of Revolutionary costumes roams from the lights to the wings, now clustering around the tub to mime the principals' conversation, now reaching out to incite the patients to riot. Each brawl is quelled by the nurses, and our attention returns to the tendentious rhetoric of Sade and Marat, or to the visits of a sleepy, melancholy Charlotte to the archon's tubside...
...into a town called Valerno, the Italian commander bellows: "Do you surrender?" The U.S. captain snarls: "Hell, no. Do you surrender?" The Italian answers amiably: "Of course." Director Blake Edwards, having attained the humoristic high point of his picture, should have surrendered too. Instead, he stages the usual Bacchic brawl that looks like the crowd scene from the Palermo production of La Bohème. After the Germans recapture the village, he contrives to involve the captain, giggling and wriggling under ribbons and rouge, in some transvestite titillations that are altogether too sweaty for comfort. And in the last reel...
...editor," Charles de Gaulle instructed an aide, "and suggest that he ought to be very severe in tomorrow's editorial." Was De Gaulle demanding yet another Paris-Presse blast against U.S. foreign policy? Not that day. Having just watched the televised national rugby finals degenerate into a brawl, France's President yearned to convey his outrage to the country. He appealed to L'Équipe, the Paris-based sports daily-and got his editorial...