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...feats. But, under closer observance the officials began to smell a rat. The guy claimed to have danced with Nureyev, run a 9.3 hundred and played in the New York Philharmonic. He said he had gotten all 800s on every test. It's funny the straw that broke the camel's back was his claim that he was an All-American soccer player. "There was just too many things he was claiming to do that hadn't been done," Jewett says about the rejected culprit...
Most of their adventures are like the weak-kneed camel that accompanies the pair: too tame. Even the sunniest tale needs an undertone of true menace to capture a child's imagination, as Disney in his early years rarely forgot. Here, in the movie's signature tune, Raggedy Ann sings that she's "just a rag dollie, happy and smiling all day." Fond, foot-tapping parents may tell themselves that this is enough. Kids know better...
...world and its problems as a supremely rational man-and something of an entertainer. Recalling the biblical warning to the wealthy, he writes. "There is that terrible needle through which the affluent must be threaded before they can emerge in paradise. Accordingly, if you are either rich or a camel, you should, as a purely practical calculation, enjoy life now." Behind this elegant raillery, Galbraith maintains a cool, doctor-patient relationship with the world. The combination of wit and seriousness makes him a distinguished popularizer and advocate who can waltz through wars, revolutions, famines, depressions and global follies without ever...
Most of the film's three-hour length is taken up with a camel's-pace exposition of the troubles encountered by the Prophet's disciples when their monotheism threatened the economic health of Mecca, which in the 7th century A.D. was in the graven-image business-attracting pilgrims to the shrines of some 300 local gods. The tortures, exiles and triumphs of the Prophet's followers are accompanied by much pacifistic blather-at least in the version for infidels. The intent is to counteract the Western belief that Islam is a faith that comes bearing...
Fighting gallantly against a book that deep-sixes its protagonists by the halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks...