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Caddell's words were really part of an epitaph for Carter, bul they conveyed the wisdom of the ages and the reason for success of almost every notable American leader. Reagan's boldness in Ihe first four months has stunned Washington. Moderation in politics suggests a lack of conviction. An eagerness to compromise too early leaves the impression of weakness. All through the capital last week, there was the feeling that this is a time for even more decisiveness and for even more daring...
...deft mimicry is the cultural critic's remove from his subject and his audience. This is not new. All humor is a detached analysis, an autopsy of the society's dreams and demons. As the sit-down iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche put it, "A joke is an epitaph on an emotion." The post-funny comics go a step further by taking the ironist's step back. By making fun of the obsequiousness and desperation found in the lower circles of show-business purgatory, they are chiseling epitaphs on epitaphs. They haunt cemeteries of frayed hopes and failed jokes...
When Elvis died at 42 in 1977, he made Frank Sinatra's signature tune his own Top Ten epitaph. "The record shows I did it my way ..." Wrong. As this ghoulishly riveting compilation of public performances (on TV, in movies and concerts) and home movies shows, Presley did it every which way but his. He began as an original-a white man who sang like an angry black and moved like a bad woman-and ended as a bloated amalgam of Liberace and Judy Garland. It was the standard show-biz tragedy, which Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo document...
...will be best remembered for its generous use of color photographs. The Guardian offered the kindest epitaph: "Now!-was a brave deed in a cowardly world...
THERE COMES A point in Absent Without Love when you realize just how haphazard the creative imagination is. It happens when the cast is singing and dancing the show's centerpiece. "A Pair O' Lips Now," a silly play on Coppola's Vietnam epitaph A pair o' lips now...Apocalypse Now...obviously it has something to do with war. And lips. And music. The ideas spin off the wordplay like sparks: World War Two, our last celebrational war: a U.S.O. troupe, those impetuous combat comedians: lips, something to do with lips. One suspects the pun came first and the show...