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...Coffin. Mauriac's antismoking campaign was inspired by Mayor Augustin Chauvet (who has not smoked in years) and gleefully promoted by ORTF, the state-run TV-radio network. To launch the crusade, a four-man team of psychologists and doctors held five days of meetings designed to wean the Mauriaquois from their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople...
Paris' emotions are much possessed by death. From his early Buchenwald illustrations to his latest environments, Paris remains a poet of ritual and mortality: he has even been known to bury an invisible sculpture sealed in a black coffin as part of a happening, and one large environmental piece at Berkeley, Pantomima Illuma (1966), is a kind of tomb, a black chamber with soft walls and eerie pencils of light on ambiguous, fleshy bits of sculpture. Paris' work is that of a rich and disordered temperament, which manages to be both heavily serious and slightly glib...
...eldest son of a mineworker dies suddenly on a farm far from the village. Benoit and his uncle must make the long trip by sleigh to bring the boy's body back to town. Antoine falls into a drunken stupor on the journey home ward, and the unguarded coffin slides into the snow from the back of the sleigh. Benoit, unable to rouse his uncle, rides to Black Lake for help and finds his aunt enjoying her own Christmas party in bed with the clerk...
...belief, is a charade on the general subject of greed, its manifestations, problems and eventual rewards. Two delirious lads (Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder), keen on money and each other, develop a plot to blow up a bank safe and stash the take in Mrs. McLeavy's coffin. Mrs. McLeavy is the recently departed mother of one of the boys. Mr. McLeavy (Milo O'Shea) has a lickerish eye on Fay the nurse (Lee Remick), whose charms are available at an ever accelerating price. Investigating them all is a detective called Truscott (Richard Attenborough), who fancies...
...play is an antiwar cartoon, but a good one, and in the tradition that after all goes back to the Greeks. At the end, the dead Pavlo, head propped up in his Army coffin, wearing the tremulous smile of the child who understands his pain at last, explains what it means: "Sheeeeeit!" It is the ultimate comment on war and atrocity, and Aristophanes would have laughed, along with the Olympic gods. · Horace Judson