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Romantic Comedy is one long credibility gap. As comedy it is flush with flip badinage but unilluminated by genuine humor. As romance it is a verbal sparring match with mighty few emo tional clinches. There is no discernible chemical affinity between these two antiseptic people...
...what give the movie its many antic and touching moments. For once, a movie love triangle features two strong heroines and credible, erotic bedroom scenes. As the troubled wife, a psychologist who loves her husband but despises public life, Harris refracts her wonderful daffiness through a spectrum of conflicting emo tions. Streep, in her first comic screen role, is at once a canny politico, a blithe belle and an uninhibited sexual partner...
...that the role of Mama has not been written or developed. It is not even scribbled in. However, the mark of a professional is to be able to make something out of nothing. Instead, Ullmann lapses into a series of alternating smiles and frowns. There is no sense of emo tional conviction: it is as if she were making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly expressive face, particularly her eyes, have been her fortune. A deeper defect is that she projects no wifely warmth or maternal affections. She treats Papa (George...
Carter and his aides apparently feel that Billy has been under so much emo tional pressure lately that any fraternal rebuke might provoke even worse outbursts. Said one aide: "The President has been terribly upset about the whole thing, about his brother going to pot . . ." There were indeed reports last week that Billy was brooding, jittery and deeply despondent in the hospital in Americus, Ga., where he is confined for bronchitis. But his physician, Dr. Paul Broun, insisted that Billy was not "seriously ill." Said he: "Seriously ill means it could lead to his demise...
Such slips are rare. The Goat, the Wolf, and the Crab raises troubling questions about the worth of inherited values; it engages the mind as well as the emo tions. The line between this novel and a three-handkerchief tearjerker is the hard edge of truth...