Word: enfante
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...Clockwork Orange makes it seem that Kubrick did get lost in the stars and has become a spaced-out religionist. Aside from his ludicrously simplistic emphasis on free will, the Bronx enfant terrible has lost his purely filmic bearings. The film shows the limits of crudeness. When it takes an actor three minutes to roll off a provocative phrase like "the old in-out in-out", witty language is killed. When there are no developed antagonisms, and the camera supports the actions of a single group, gang warfare is threatless and meaningless. And, perhaps intimidated by the director...
...enfant et les Sortileges, an opera by Maurice Ravel, plus some of his chamber and orchestral work. Presented by Lowell House Musical Society. Lowell House Dining Hall...
...lies instead in the handling of traditional problems of dramatic presentation. Scenes are well staged, lines well spoken, and the attention to medieval detail is apt. Tynan's screenplay is reasonably faithful, and the Shakespeare, though somewhat clouded, is never obscured. Polanski is no longer so eager to play enfant terrible, and it is not his radicalism that is impressive but his competence, that dullest of virtues...
ONCE he was the enfant terrible of French music who did not scruple to assert the Paris Opera was full of dung. These days, Pierre Boulez is no less sure of his opinions. But he is somewhat more temperate in expressing them, for he has now joined the Establishment to wage the fight from within. His reign as the new music director of the New York Philharmonic begins this week. Over the coming year he will certainly shape the future of that orchestra. He may also, if he has his way, somewhat change the whole direction of American symphonic life...
...Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab nationalism...