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...complete story must be told in 34 to 49 syllables. Asimov likes them to be not only clever but also a bit vulgar. "Clean limericks lack flavor-like vanilla ice cream or pound cake," he claims. "They are perfectly edible but, to my taste, are tame, flat and unsatisfying." Nonetheless, Asimov awarded first prize to this limerick by George Vaill, retired secretary of Yale University...
...deliver or receive gold, cotton, pork bellies or whatever on a set date at a fixed price, commodity options are purely paper investments giving the buyer the right to purchase a future, gambling on how much prices rise or fall. In the U.S., such options have had the tempting flavor of forbidden fruit. Since the 1930s, trading in some 100 types of options, mainly agricultural products, has not been allowed on U.S. exchanges. But in recent years some inventive firms began selling in the U.S. options supposedly traded in London (some were; some weren't). Usually business was drummed...
Malle tries to make the movie's flavor pass for substance by rilling the film with portentous zoom shots, but the ruse does not succeed. The cast does not do much to flesh out the material either. Be sides having no resemblance to the real Bellocq, Carradine rarely gets a handle on the mysterious photographer-hero. With his sepulchral demeanor, he looks less like an obsessed artist than a constipated undertaker. Sarandon, sputtering like a road-show Tennessee Williams heroine, never creates a credible character. Nor does Singer Frances Faye, playing an ancient madam who does an obligatory...
...problem with this show is with the Howard-Johnson's-flavor-to-please-everyone style which results from so many different artists each represented by only a few works. Perhaps deeper exploration of a more limited number of artists would give the show more direction, and make it more appealing to the viewer...
...ballet little known in this country, and turned it into-a classical vaudeville? A romantic comedy? A Broadway musical en pointe? The new Don Q is in part all of these, a marvel of speed, timing and razzle-dazzle. The setting is Spanish and the tradition Russian, but the flavor is distinctly American...