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...surgeons have mainly used catgut to stitch up their patients. The chief reason is that the body's enzymes can absorb catgut (actually made from cattle and sheep intestines), and the sutures usually disappear within 90 days. Because the material consists of animal protein, though, it has one flaw: it causes inflammation around the very wound it is supposed to heal...
...show is a copious delight, but it has a sizable temperamental flaw. No strict decision was made as to whether it should be played straight or campy, and the latter apparently won out as the lesser commercial risk. Camp is low-level satire, and it tends to destroy both the past and the present with a snicker. Far from being a "great creative sensibility," as acclaimed by Susan Sontag, camp is anti-sensibility. Its intrinsic nature is sterile, and it applies the tactic of reductio ad absurdum to imply that all cultural values are equally sterile. Thus at one moment...
...that. Harvard insiders are now convinced that Bok is a first-rate choice. His flaw, if it can be called that, is a record of such quiet accomplishment that his real mettle seems untested. A cheerful, flexible man, he grew up assured of financial security by his Philadelphia family's share in the Curtis publishing fortune. After his mother and lawyer father were divorced when Bok was five, his mother moved with him to Beverly Hills, Calif. She sent him -presciently-to a California Episcopal military academy named Harvard...
...have made an intelligent farce out of the spectacle of set designers and hairdressers, love children and La Mama actors rationalizing Fellini's social-psychological-religious urges while the director himself thumbs his nose at every available theory. But Hughes never quite conquers her awe of the proceedings, a flaw compounded by her cinematic illiteracy. (At one point, she refers to the famous film director Luigi Visconti...
This is only a flaw in an icy gem. Petri's calculating direction is too swift and merciless to allow the clutter to become insuperable. Volonte, meanwhile, invests the role of the cold, internally rent inspector with brutal authority, giving credence to the proposition that if justice is blind, so is its terrible opposite...