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...traditional termination of spontaneous heartbeat and breathing simply is not satisfactory. Emergency techniques have brought back many such clinically "dead." At the other extreme is the guideline of a cautious Dr. Maze, who wrote in 1890 that the first signs of decay should precede burial. For transplant purposes, this caution is a little restrictive...
Frustrated by what they saw as the S.P.D.'s caution and compromise in the wake of its impressive win at the polls last fall, Roth and his Jusos began organizing for last week's congress almost as soon as the election results were announced. There were five major issues: how to redistribute the wealth generated by Germany's economic boom, how to allocate national resources in future planning, how to limit land speculation and increase public construction, whether "radicals" could be excluded from civil service jobs and, finally, whether to press for a withdrawal of U.S. forces...
...turns out that Truffaut isn't interested in genius. What surfaces here is caution. Stylistically, and structurally, we've all seen the match of Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me. In fact, the movie's most flamboyant technical act are its credits. They are highly contrasted, so that there are no middle ground greys, and then tinted in vivid pinks, greens, and oranges. A sequence of a car passing through the countryside, the effect is very surreal...
What they prove is that Truffaut has honed an eye for the straightforwardly comic. His stylistic caution is underscored because, in doing so, he echoes the safest of the comic modes, situation comedy. More generally, there is an influence of television throughout. The final half-hour is screened as television -- not as sitcom, but as a parodied adventure series...
...going to be a genius. He isn't, and it's because he hasn't tried. He simply doesn't want to tax himself, and he'd prefer not to tax us either. He could make forgettable movies; he does not. There is no paradox, only the director's caution. tuned to a precise knowledge of the familiar and the comic. Truffaut makes movies that are merely funny, but makes merely funny movies almost...