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...impulsive traveling. Mixing Taoist philosophy with Cubism, and Ab-Ex drips with Chinese calligraphy, his grandiloquent '60s works like Monastery and Monsoon transcended abstraction to become austere meditations in paint, as elemental as lightning. And all the more remarkable considering their flimsy foundations - they were often completed on carboard with the cheapest...
...such fast pacing is that Allen can also use more characters than the average comedy and develop them equally - even though it's frothy, this is still situational comedy, far more sophisticated than virtually any other comedy that hits the big screens nowadays. Allen always manages to avoid carboard characters - even when they actually are one note jokes. Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Jennifer Tilly in Bullets Over Broadway, and now Elaine May as Frenchy's cousin in Small Time Crooks - the bumbling, doltish female in these films does little more than spout inane observations, but they manage...
Welcome exceptions to the carboard rule are Evie's doting mother, a divorcee who suffocates "Mommy's perfect little girl" with affection and tries to manipulate every aspect of Evie's life with the veiled threat, "After all, if you can't tell me, you can't tell anyone." Guess how she reacts when she finds her daughter in bed with another girl. Also fun to watch is Wendy, Randy's married-woman girlfriend from Scene One. She is a key source on what's being worn in today's malls. You can try not to laugh as Fashion...
...last event, the 11 contestants duelled with pistols. Two by two, they marched away from their paper effigies and at ten paces turned and fired, the one at the heart of the other's figure. Hall sent five leaden pellets through the carboard heart of Hinckley's model in the final thereby winning the meet...
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