Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair, this spoof on late Victorian aestheticism and its pretentiously empyrean devotees is not sterling Gilbert & Sullivan. Patiencedoes have its share of Gilbertian humor, mostly deriving from the parody of aesthetic attitudinizing, and its plot is powered by the usual sort of Gilbertian paradox--in this case, an identification of love with duty which brands the love of anything worth loving as undutiful. But it lacks the consistently memorable score that distinguishes Pirates of Penzance, for example, or the brilliant comic sequences which make Iolanthea favorite...
...preposterous life-style (he has built palaces for himself in each of the country's nine regions), "le Guide," as Mobutu likes to call himself, has brought Zaire to the verge of economic collapse. Nonetheless, with so much Western aid on the way, there seems a fair chance that the "invasion" of Shaba may eventually be reduced to the kind of low-level guerrilla warfare that has smoldered on, in parts of southern and eastern Zaire, for much of the past 17 years...
Though many of the facts have been changed, Annie Hall is a fair portrayal of their relationship. Like Annie, Diane sees a shrink five times a week, and like Annie and Alvy, Diane and Woody decided to split three years ago. Diane now lives alone in Manhattan, in a bare, white-on-white apartment whose most prominent feature is a montage of 24 photos-Diane in all her moods...
...pages-if indeed she did get quite away with it -was her severe, ironic prose. Echoing with the nuns' devotions and bits of English poetry, it contrasted with, and almost rebuked, the broadness of the subject. With Nasty Habits, on the other hand, the title is a fair barometer of the film makers' sensibilities. Spark's silvery resonance has, in the words of St. Paul, become as sounding brass. Christopher Porterfield
Paper Chase. Two days later, more than 100 of his colleagues gathered at New York's Plaza Hotel for the 13th Annual International Antiquarian Book Fair. There celebrities like Zero Mostel and Jackie Onassis, substantial as morocco-bound sets, and youths, shabby as prison paperbacks, browsed through more than $2 million worth of books, manuscripts and incunabula. Among the items for sale was a two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, inscribed by the author. The price for this piece of the true Hakenkreuz...