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...film's most serious failure lies with the director, who also played the star. The reckless, feckless knight who personifies the pragmatic common man, a cross between barfly and gadfly, is one of Shakespeare's most captivating creatures. Falstaff's dark side is delineated believably and well by Welles, who frosts the screen with the chill of death when he stands shunned by his former companion, Prince Hal, become King Henry V. But the tragic moment of repudiation lacks substance and significance because the Prince and Falstaff have never been Shakespeare's "sworn brothers...
Being Secretary of Commerce has always been a feckless job. After two years in the post, John T. Connor did something about it. He argued that his own job should be abolished...
...police response to the mob was often feckless but occasionally ferocious. As the disorders spread, Superintendent Orlando Wilson built his force from 200 men the first night to 900 the third. The mobs generally retained the initiative as police dashed confusedly back and forth over the battleground to meet each new challenge. At times, the cops displayed admirable coolness in the face of vile curses and the bruising missiles of street warfare; at others, they matched the rioters in reckless violence with club and gun. Once, after losing a sniper in the dark, a squad of infuriated cops turned...
Enter Dr. Johnson. It is the talent of a great interviewer, but it functioned only feebly in Boswell's interviews with his father, who threatened continually to disinherit his feckless son. "Better to snuff out a candle," he snarled, "than leave it to stink in a socket." In London later that year, the talent was further tried by a man who hated Scots and sycophants and saw both in Boswell. "Mr. Johnson," Boswell gasped as he sat gaping at the Grand Cham of English letters, "I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Fixing Boswell with...
...Ears. Pairing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Ursula Andress in a feckless adaptation of Jules Verne's The Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman, Director Philippe de Broca overbids to repeat the success of his hilarious mock-action thriller, That Man from Rio. The trouble is that Director de Broca's imitation of his own winning formula is not a whit better than anyone else's, and a good deal worse than some...