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...there's a lot of sex in this show. In the sensuous "Pernambuco" scene, where the chorus girls are appropriately presented in scanty (but tasteful) dress, Eileen Henikoff leaves the audience breathless with an extremely erotic dance...
Jean Seberg, as she was in Breathless, is depressingly effective as a small-town broad abroad, the sort of disinhibited Amie most Frenchmen earnestly implore to go home. Françoise Moreuil, Seberg's ex-husband, shows a pretty flair for direction in his first film. He keeps the story bouncing from pillow to Proust, and he bathes scene after scene in a morning light of such glittering purity that the spectator is simultaneously delighted by the physical beauty and disgusted by the morbid decadence he sees. It's like being served a dead mouse glac...
...Inability to Laugh. Kafka's form was magic realism in which, as Politzer writes, "clefts and crags open to reveal depths beyond realistic detail." In breathless, frightened prose, Kafka built his ambivalent fears into ambiguities that empty the spirit. His heroes endure events that seem to mirror their experience, but in fact are tantalizing opposites that contradict everything they know. In The Trial Kafka's hero asserts his innocence until echoes of his own voice convince him of his guilt. Life becomes absurd in a universe whose nature is that guiltless men shall be punished. Kafka never knew...
...pointed out, Jackie has been the victim of a noisome tide of gossip stories in movie mags and Confidential-type rags. Month after month, Jackie's picture, and often Caroline's, has been splashed on the covers of such magazines. Teaser cover headlines are calculated to shill breathless readers into thinking that they will learn about the most intimate recesses of Jackie's life. The articles inside never live up to the billing. Samples...
...Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals sounded in private exactly as they do in public-breathless and inchoate. The conference did result in a plea to Acting Secretary-General U Thant, who thereupon started to work out a kind of truce. Then, two days later, came Stevenson's best performance since he took...