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Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a kind of Everyman coloring book for quasi-grownups. Color Everyman's face white with flour. Dab on a maraschino-cherry nose. House him in a circus tent, and dress him in clown pants baggy enough to hold a pair of baby kangaroos. Name him "He" or "The Man." Make him walk like a mechanical doll, and then propel this symbolic cipher through a life cycle from the cradle to the grave that seems to take almost as long to stage as it would to live through...
...addicts have already enshrined as one of the great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase he is "up to his arse in bumph" (i.e., a busy desk officer). An unconscious clown as an Etonian, an obtuse and thundering bore as a successful businessman, a disastrous figure of Freudian fun as a lover, Widmerpool, as Powell says in a hundred ways, is the sort of man this age was designed for. In Widmerpool is seen the force of Powell...
...above the Spoleto stage, sipping scotch, now and again crying out gleefully, relishing the repugnance of his new creations. Lest anyone misunderstand them, he contributed a program note: "If the play achieves even partially its artistic intention, you will find it possible to pity this female clown even while her absurd pretentions and her panicky last effort to hide from her final destruction make you laugh...
...gate swung open, and Reynolds learned better. Hoofs pounding, the old bull charged wildly into the arena, spun dizzily to his left, then suddenly reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump. "I looked up," recalls Reynolds, "and one of the clowns was snapping a lead rope on him. Another clown got on his back, and they led him out of the arena. It was downright degrading. But it was sort of comical...
...likable films so far produced by the new French school of cinema (TIME, Nov. 16, 1959). The performances are superb. The leading men range with ease from piffle to pathos, and Actress Moreau, who has too long been typed as a gamine Garbo, reveals a pretty capacity to clown...