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...great in the sense we've always thought of it, the fabled block-buster whose legend was part of our earliest childhood, a gold-plated hunk of racial memory, but great as only a work of art can be. Twenty-eight years, and the machinations of Mao, Stokely, and the Beatles, have not diminished its emotional power...
First Race, First Win. Bus (a contraction of "Buster," the nickname given him by a hospital nurse at birth) has been sailing-in dead earnest-ever since his daddy dropped him into a dinghy at five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered...
...only cumbrous thing about this novel is the title, borrowed from some lines by W. H. Auden. Otherwise, Balloons Are Available is lighter than air and easily dirigible toward its comic purpose. The hero, who progresses from repairman to executive vice president, is named Howard Ormsby. Part Candide, part Buster Keaton, he is loosed in a land where every pratfall is followed by a commercial. Author Crittenden's best effects are gained through a sort of contrapuntal dialogue. One of Howard's loves tells him the story of her life, including the part about her older brother...
...steal the picture were it not for the fact that Mostel so overshadows everything. He becomes Mostel's accomplice in a far-fetched scheme when Mostel reveals he knows about his collection of pornographic pottery ("None of us is perfect"). Standing out among the numerous other good roles is Buster Keaton as the old Roman who's been searching for his long lost children and keeps running through the film at the oddest moments. His face is almost as comically expressive as Mostel's. When, not hearing correctly, he says Yiddish fashion, "My daughter--a eunuch?" it becomes the best...
...wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland has been mired, and finally halted, by an obscure bridge buster called the Findley Amendment...