Word: decipherer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FM marks the directing debut of Cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown), who here reveals some rather provocative notions about film making. FM seems to be two hours of unedited footage thrown together without regard for the admittedly old-fashioned niceties of narrative movies; indeed, at any given moment, it is...
Readers who try to decipher her fullpage, many-framed scratchings may think she has a point there. Bretécher's comic strips, not exactly thigh-slappers, suggest the wry, nervous humor of Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Her typically flabby, potato-nosed men, women and children often discourse...
IN A PREFACE to his play Caligula, Albert Camus confessed that he was amazed when French critics spoke of it as a philosophical play. "I look in vain for philosophy in these four acts," Camus writes. "If it exists it stands on the level of this assertion by the hero...
Quite apart from the unusual step of a press secretary correcting his President, Powell's answer only further confused matters for anyone who has tried to decipher the White House's smoke signals on the economy. Last week Powell again tried. Powell said he had meant that the...
The rest of the production, though, is quite professional. Louise Newman's costumes, if not sumptuous, are certainly eye-catching, and Ferric Fang's orchestra does justice to the bouncy music. Best of all, the set (designed by Robert Grossman, with hilarious graphic designs by Lee Bearson and Tom Gammill...