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...Totally objective, they are as clear and crisp and perfectly shaped as icicles, as sharp as splinters of glass. Seldom if ever before has a writer been able to cut so deeply into life with the 26 carving tools of the English alphabet...
...Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH c, ran above an early story about an opera star, who collapsed onstage and died in the wings). The paper is still so accurately aimed at Patterson's hand-picked target-the Manhattan subway rider-that News circulation...
...Troy's mother, she is mostly wasted on Karl Maiden, her loutish husband, and on script inanities (these young people "are just trying to fight with their own identity"). But she makes a splendid animated advertisement for Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, whose clothes she models with crisp Technicolored distinction. And there are some heart-stirring shots of quilted green land and shimmering lakes, of whaling boats and silver-spired churches taken on location around Windsor, Old Saybrook, Mystic and Essex. Audiences will also learn about tobacco-possibly more than they care to. Item: those acres of flimsy shade...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus...