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Luciano's re-enactments are entertaining, but as with too much of everything, the anecdotes and one-liners grow a little weary. Pun and irony are about as complex as the material gets. (He tries to play mind games with himself sometimes. Luciano tells us, until someone reminds him he's playing with a handicap.) Stylistically, you or I could have written the book. Luciano (or Fisher) could have written something other than simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet...
...terms of its ability to involve and to entertain Agnes of God deserves unstinting praise. The production is clean, neat and generally falls disappointingly short of its mark. Its full throated advocacy of faith and its lack of respect for ambiguity doom it to failure as a drama of ideas. The verdict of the fashionmonger on Agnes of God as a potential trend-setter should be negative. There may yet be life in the psycho-drama form, but it wants a Prince Charming, not this unevenly constructed work, to make it awaken...
...daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something in the coffee...
...story of Company No. Five is only one of many examples of Cambridge's recent efforts to entertain and edify citizens with public artwork. With the help of special city funding, the municipal art council has transformed more than 85 sites in almost every neighborhood into open exhibits of local talent, ethnic spirit and community pride...
...girlfriend (the darkly sensual Laura Morante), a radical worker-priest (Victor Cavallo), maybe even Primo's patrician wife (Anouk Aimee) - is involved in the abduction. Conspiracy or paranoia? Primo says: "I prefer not to know." And the film takes no sides, instead allowing both protagonist and moviegoer to entertain each terrible possibility...