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...worse books have been written for better motives, however, and despite the overcomplicated substructure, Buckholz's novel is an intermittent delight. The author is the best free-associating baloney stuffer since Richard Condon got tired. Matthew Mendelsohn's lies are good lies indeed -grossly outrageous and very funny. There is the lie of the Jewish Miss Universe, the lie of Matthew's buddy's on-the-battlefield commission, the truly evil-minded lie of Rosa the Kisser. Each is an authentic zircon, guaranteed to scratch cheese, free of defects for 90 days, less parts and labor...
...delight Henry Kissinger takes in his power only intensifies our distaste for his use of Harvard's prestige in his rise to stardom. And while the intricacies of his agreement with the Government Department will not "occupy graduate students for centuries", we are glad that it, too, has come...
...North Vietnam and the United States not agree to an arrangement for a political settlement earlier? In recent press statements, Henry Cabot Lodge '24, who was United States ambassador to the Paris talks during most of 1969, registered his delight that there has been a negotiated settlement. Ambassador Lodge claimed that at the outset of your first term "Hanoi had no incentive to negotiate seriously." He further argued that "those who say we could have solved it in 1969 should have told...
...that tradition comes The Jockey Club Stakes, and it is a nostal gic delight to have the show in Manhattan. Playwright Home's three central characters are titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...
...Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse: Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many of Chaplin's most famous scenes are found here: the dance of the rolls. Big Jim McKay thinking Chaplin a chicken. Chaplin's delight at the smile Georgia meant for another man. Every scene, even every slapstick gag, contributes to the film as a whole--that's one reason Chaplin stands so far above other silent comedians...