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...inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra limousines, higher status. And on Cambridge Circus, another and superior division of British intelligence cynically sees the whole exercise as a chance to get rid of an inferior nuisance. "The Circus" provides only obsolete equipment and minimum cooperation. The Department men compound this...
...registering as a "resident" and petitioning the local court to grant him a divorce based on incompatibility with his wife Susan. Susan's lawyer duly appeared to admit the allegation and submit her to the court's jurisdiction. So split the Kaufmanns. "Vaya con Dios," said the judge in the traditional Mexican farewell to the divorced...
Made in 1932 during the Depression, the film concerns the life of the overly rich. Into the poshsetting Lubitsch injects a con man par excellence, far smoother than the bungling James Bond, with overtones of the earthy Mack the Knife. A zany situation comedy follows, set on a foundation of social pretense. Lubitsch pours on the humor, doubling joke upon joke, until his audience splits with laughter. Thirty years later it is just a s effective...
...chili con carne and cherries flambé, It's dinner at eight and it's patching the chimney, And getting verse published like Phyllis McGinley...
...punctilious picnicker and Sunday sailor who loves wine but hates corkscrews, Faye et Cie. of Mâcon, France, has put vin in a can for 99?, is now selling it in six-packs in supermarkets from Los Angeles to Boston. The imbiber's report: no sour grapes. The wine is Beaujolais, one of the few that should be drunk young, and canning arrests the aging process, whereas bottling prolongs...