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This is an uneven production. The high spot is Webster's Tarleton, a figure of dynamic animal magnetism and a dauntless fox hunter of ideas. Drawn to the aviator, Kipp's Hypatia is more coquette than carnivore in her pursuit.While the clever flow of the Shavian line defies damming. Director Christopher Newton permits intellectual comedy to be diverted into farce. No matter how funny Shaw may be, his truest punch line is moral passion. - T.E.K
Claude Ryan, leader of the province's opposition Liberal Party, called the result "an astounding victory." Indeed it was. Most polls during the bitter, 35-day campaign indicated that the referendum would be won or lost narrowly, in part because of the clever way that Lévesque had posed the question to the voters. He merely asked approval to begin negotiations, promising that there would be no change in Quebec's political status until the results were approved in a second referendum. Ryan, the onetime publisher of Montreal's daily Le Devoir, denounced the ambivalent proposal...
...they feel unloved. Tell them they've done well, that they're very, very clever oil companies, and that each one of them is going to get a prize...
Despite a clever psychological ploy designed to steal Miss Smith's thunder--Islander captain Eddie Westfall presented her with a bouquet and his teammates skated by to shake her hand--the Flyers scored just 19 seconds after the opening face-off and coasted to a 4-1 victory. Bobby Clarke & Co. went on to defeat Buffalo in something of an anti-climax...
Secondly--and this is why no justification of such scenes as "artistically necessary" is possible--the entire conception and style of the story is inadequate to the issues involved. Attanasio is glib, his characters are glib. Everyone is very glib and clever and no real commitment to dealing with the problems of American machismo and militarism is made. The characters are intellectual enough (graduate students at Harvard, dropping allusions to Heidegger and Hemingway!) that only intellectuals will read the story; yet they are redneckedly outlandish enough (bowling and slinging semi-automatic weapons) that they will not challenge any intellectuals...