Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story describes how she almost wins her dirty little game. She seduces the chauffeur (Daniel Gélin). who seduces the maid (Jocelyne Mercier), who thereupon becomes a pliable witness to all sorts of things she imagines she has seen. In the end it takes some very clever police work by a marvelously grimacious flic (Bernard Blier) to bring the criminals to book-but then, come to think of it, what crime have they committed...
Campton's A Smell of Burning and Memento Mori diverge from realism to comic fantasy. They are short and slight in form, and amiably gruesome in tone. Both are clever jobs, but each is composed of one joke, not a very funny joke at that, spun out far too thinly...
...Gioconda Smile, Huxley's most famous story, is the best. His hero, Mr. Hutton, is clever, covered in tweed and money troubles, able to explain everything about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman...
...about the Kremlin's intentions than had been expected (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Christian Science Monitor summed up its own samplings thus: "People aren't fools. We believe that the Kremlin has underestimated the intelligence of today's world, that it has been a bit too clever, and that its insincerity can be exposed...
...High Cost of Loving (MGM) is a clever little watercooler farce with kitchenette complications. The hero (José Ferrer) and heroine (Gena Rowlands) are a nice young suburban couple. Two cars, no kids, both work-she in a gift shop ("It's For Them"), he in industry (purchasing department). One morning she happily announces that after nine years of trying they are finally going to have a baby. At work he prematurely passes the cigars and takes the joshing. ("Here's a man who has proved that anything can be done if you keep on trying," cracks...