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...problem with Girl Friends is the movie itself: Weill's film is not half so interesting as its intentions. There are some nice things in it-finely shaded performances, a couple of amusing scenes-but they cannot carry a movie that lacks such essentials as sharp writing, cinematic flair and a strong point of view. Could it be that Weill spent so much energy producing Girl Friends that she was all tuckered out once she began to shoot? The film feels tired...
...German Opera Director; of a lung embolism; in Salzburg. Rennert's experience with film and theater direction paid off in 1946 when British authorities offered him the intendancy of the war-devastated Hamburg Opera. Ten years later, Rennert left the company to direct opera, with his typical theatrical flair, on a freelance basis throughout Europe...
...will not be morally repugnant should be clear to anyone who has watched the pleasantly inane goings-on in the Yard this summer, and to say that we at The Crimson do not consider the paper as serious competition would be to argue the obvious with a positively British flair for understatement. Still, the circumstances surrounding the new paper's origins deserve a bit of scrutiny...
...Edmund Crispin (Walker; 287 pages; $8.95). In one of Crispin's earlier books, a mystery novelist confides: "Our plots are necessarily improbable, but I believe in making sure that they are not impossible." With Glimpses, his first detective story in a quarter-century, Crispin re-establishes his own flair for turning the unlikely into the inevitable. A grisly succession of murders, decapitations and other severances in a Devon village involves the rector, a retired major, a composer, a not-too-plodding constable, two detectives, two nymphomaniacs, sundry pig farmers, most of Fleet Street, a blackmailer, a local ancient...
...game--every time Dick popped out from under his California rock, you could, hoe him right back under again with a few well-chosen comments about the world's most powerful un-indicated co-conspirator, and all that. It was all good clean fun, with a generously self-righteous flair. Richard Nixon, whipping boy for the soul of America, actually did some good those four years. The man was a sparring partner for a nation struggling against the fat of Bicentennial complacency, always offering his glass jaw as a sacrifice to a nation worried about whether it still held...