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...point in this painfully self-conscious movie, Dirk Bogarde lifts an eyebrow to that magnificent height he alone of contemporary leading men can scale and declares his opposition to political violence on the grounds that it "reeks of spontaneity." It is the only moment in the film that one feels comes from the hearts of Director Resnais and Writer Mercer, whose distrust of the spontaneous is woven into every tedious frame of this stupefying work. Calculation is their bag, and they have calculated the life right out of a conceit that clearly was not much to begin with...
There was chin wagging, eyebrow lifting and nay-saying when the announcement came that Georgia Congressman Andrew Jackson Young Jr. had been nominated as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Indeed, for a while the firmest nay had been that of Young himself. But last week, under what one source described as "imploring by Carter to reconsider," personable Andy Young accepted what he conceded to be, only half facetiously, a suicide post, or so it has proved for many a famed political figure...
...Director Peter Hall never misses a nuance or a climax. Whenever Gielgud and Richardson play together, the evening becomes memorable. It was so in David Storey's Home and it is so now. Flawless timing, intuitive ensemble work, a mastery of gesture from antic toe to arching eyebrow, and marvelously contrasting voices, Gielgud's rippling clarinet and Richardson's booming bass viol-they have it all. May some guardian angel of drama protect and preserve them in our midst...
...most literate and witty in the nation this fall. During a panel discussion after the primary, Buckley referred to Moynihan as "professor," somehow managing to evoke with his richly cultivated tone the image of a chalk-dusty elitist woefully out of touch with reality. Up shot the Moynihan Mephistophelean eyebrow. With mock outrage he fulminated: "Boy, this campaign is getting rough. I might call you a businessman...
...bank in Paris, took up the literary life there and renamed his wife, Polly Peabody, "Caresse." His writer friends-he knew Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle-were not surprised by the toenail paint or the tattoos. Harry did that sort of thing. What did raise an eyebrow or two, briefly, was the suicide. It seemed that Harry meant what he had said...