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...unglittering and uninfluential majority who have never had Howar zero in on them at a party, her bestselling book obviously provides a print immersion in high-powered gos sip and naughty Southern charm honed to a cutting edge. Like any clever wom an, she is less revealing than she pre tends to be. Most of the lovers are not named (a U.S. Senator, a White House aide), while most of the named are not lovers; not until page 241 does the au thor break the suspense by conceding "an absence of carnal knowledge be tween me and Henry [Kissinger...
...have fought the good fight, I have finished the race." What is new and startling is that hundreds of prominent athletes are practicing locker-room piety alongside the swingers of sport. In a year when many church agencies are promoting evangelism, harnessing the hero worship of athletes is a clever way to make religion attractive to the young...
EASILY THE MOST inventive aspect of the production is Franco Colavecchia's set. It is starkly unpretentious, and at first glance seems almost too bare. But the backdrop, seen through three rectangular frames, turns out to be a series of projected slides that change with every scene. This clever technique, highly appropriate to the play's emphasis on sight and the technology of seeing, works especially well in the scenes with perspectives of grand interiors. Unfortunately, only those who are sitting smack in the middle of the theater get the full effect...
...mess they have gotten themselves into by proposing to their beloveds under the false name of Ernest, Algy pops countless muffins into his mouth with fastidious greed. It is in such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly and uncommittedly stylish...
...tide of bromides about the dirty business of spying. Winner, a director whose idea of filling the frame is to put something, anything-a sink, a vase-in the foreground of every shot, makes only occasional feints toward rescuing his star. However, there is a very clever, quietly brutal assassination scene. Some estimable players-Paul Scofield, John Colicos, J.D. Cannon-are present to lend support. There is even a certain obtuse symmetry to the carnage that closes the film. ∙Jay Cocks