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Diligent Pupil. As a comic actor, Tati has become over the years so closely calculating that he has lost all trace of spontaneity and humanity. His every gesture is self-conscious and self-congratulatory. As a director, he has become a great deal more elaborate but somewhat less inspired. Traffic...
Tati has obviously - perhaps too obviously - learned from the old masters. Keaton's mechanical virtuosity is on view, or at least attempted, as are Chaplin's timing and resilience and Langdon's scrambled innocence. Tati absorbs and assimilates each skill like a diligent pupil taking great care...
The federal bureaucracy has just finished saluting the industry that keeps it in business. President Nixon proclaimed last week the first National Microfilm Week in honor of the process that has made possible a vast accumulation of records for Social Security and more arcane institutions. It was an appropriate recognition...
The mere mention of Chicago brings forth visions of vote fraud, but evidence that would stand up in court has always been difficult to find. Even in 1960, when it was widely suspected that hanky-panky in Cook County cost Richard Nixon Illinois' electoral votes, 633 indictments resulted in...
In court one afternoon for the trial of a robbery suspect he has brought in, Morgan observes: "We have a very diligent bunch of young public defend ers around here who . . . will drive you up the wall defending a chicken shit burglary like it was the Sacco-Vanzetti trial." Knowing...