Word: conceitedly
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...such hits as All in the Family, Maude, Good Times and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In All That Glitters Lear takes on his biggest subject: sexual habits and stereotypes. In everything but anatomy and dress, the women are men and the men are women. Out of that basic conceit flow-or, more precisely, meander-all jokes and situations. "Our premise is simple," explains Lear. "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely. This was Adam. I think the audience will be fascinated to watch the endless role playing...
...story is excessively detailed and poorly structured, as if there is no order to be made out of routine terror or "normal" repression. Graphically, page nine of last Wednesday's New York Times shocks. How can so much energy and space be invested in the appearance of prosperity, the conceit of control? Why do we look at respectable nonchalance, and refuse to see ladylike strangulation, life and death in small print...
...this show? It's just not enough fun or makeshift enough to put you on the side of the creators. On a professional scale--you can forget about bombing in New Haven--this show would be lucky to limp out of Bridgeport without a lynching. It's a conceit, and that's all right, but whose conceit is it? The question of what constituency the Pudding and its scripts represent seems to have come late in Cardinal Knowledge when an innocent cast member dared to drop a line that even Mary Louise Smith wouldn't have minded...
...only moment in the film that one feels comes from the hearts of Director Resnais and Writer Mercer, whose distrust of the spontaneous is woven into every tedious frame of this stupefying work. Calculation is their bag, and they have calculated the life right out of a conceit that clearly was not much to begin with...
...necessity for the artist to behave inhumanely. These gaseous themes have preoccupied the literary mind, determined to romanticize its own workings, too much in this century. Until now, thank heavens, the movies have avoided such blather. Perhaps this dismally attenuated movie will warn other film makers away from a conceit that has not even served literature very well. If so, Resnais's icily expert technique will not have been expended totally in vain . Richard Schickel