Word: deja
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There was a sense of deja vu about the whole affair-an uncanny, paramnesic feeling that all of this had happened before. And of course it had. Half a million Muscovites filled Red Square with song and holiday color, as usual. Through the balmy spring weather rumbled the same long lines of tanks and rocket launchers, as usual. Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky delivered his usual threats of rocket-borne retaliation against any imperialist aggressor. From high on the facade of the Moscow Hotel, the usual giant portrait of Nikita Khrushchev eyeballed the crowd, and-as usual-the man himself, surrounded...
Summer is a-tunin' in. Television watchers are beginning to suffer from creeping deja vu as reruns start their annual trip around the circuitry. Most promising offerings for the few million viewers who will be watching (and the networks have apparently decided that there are very few indeed...
...expect: "He seems to be in a good mood. He speaks English. He is on his second drink." That afternoon he paused long enough to speak to a group of architectural students, whom he mesmerized. "I left Paris yesterday morning," he announced. "It is now bedtime for me. Deja it is one o'clock in the morning. That is why I will be very brief." He was brief for an hour, rapidly sketching on two large boards covered with white paper: "I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies." His theme...
...Aaron's slum scenes, while effective, have an air of deja vu about them, and, at least at the dress rehearsal Lattended, the murders were sadly disappointing. More work may have been done on the show since then, but The Doctor and the Devils would be out of place on the stage even in the best of circumstances. It is a movie script. Its dozens of locales need dozens of settings; its fades and cuts and dissolves must be quicker and cleaner than the be-tiptoed blackouts that are necessary in the theatre. Much of the work's quality...
...merveilleux, une belle anguille, avec un sens si exact de la modulation scenique. Il faut signaler aussi Marcelle Ranson si accomplie dans le role d'Albine, et Claude Martin (Burrhus), qui d'une maniere brusque mais touchante prononce le jugement definitif sur Neron: "Ses yeux indifferents ont deja la constance/D'un tyran dans le crime endurci des l'enfance...