Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thurber assembled the piece several years before his death. In a humble, un-self conscious and altogether pleasant way, it is an experiment in total media. Dramatic readings, with more acting and less reading, depending on the piece, are accompanied by a quiet jazz piano; his cartoons and illustrations are projected above the set, sometimes as asides to the stage work and sometimes as the center of attention...
Also much more sex and nudity. But in the new films, sex is rarely prurient. If it is sometimes startlingly explicit, it is nevertheless unself-conscious and often functional to the plot?or what plot there is. It is also unstereotyped. People make love on the couch (Georgy Girl), in cars (Alfie), and in a susurrous sea of blue backdrop paper (Blow-Up). And the girl hardly ever waits any more to be asked; she communicates sex like a banner headline...
...would likely be Mitterand or Guy Mollet -- a disliked but very skillful former leader of the fourth Republic. Another Fourth Republic figure, Pierre Menders-France who made his political comeback in Grenoble last week after unsuccessful attempts in 1958 and 1962, is one of the most intelligent and reform-conscious of all Socialist leaders. Mendes has a very large following, but he is so opposed to the presidential system in principle that it would be difficult to convince him to seek the office...
This same will toward unself-conscious candor goes into another popular series, a running serialization of the Forsyte Saga. As soap operas go, it beats the U.S. product on all levels-story, acting, direction. One recent episode centered on the scene in which Soames Forsyte, raging with jealousy, assaults his wife, crying, "Any man can have you! I can have you!" And he does, with the camera discreetly turning its head at the proper moment...
...Pudding show, by definition, allows for and even capitalizes on its numerous shortcomings. Only when the proceedings stop is it in trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self-conscious counterpoint of the "Like You Like It" reprise; the weak, semi-serious ballad, "Is It Really Me"; and the tedious choreography of Pan's Dance, which wastes the considerable talents of Director Wilson and dancer Ron Porter...