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This is followed by an inquisitorial barrage of absurd personal questions that might have been dreamed up in a collaboration between Kafka and lonesco. After this humiliation, Coco turns on his impassive tormentor in a tirade that is pitiful but disruptive, the only flaw -and a slight one-in an otherwise memorable production. Giving an enormously resourceful performance, James Coco is a kind of vulnerable pixy. He can bare every scar on his psyche and yet coyly tease a line the way a hairdresser teases a curl...
MOST OF THE responsibility for this unhappy flaw must lie with screenwriter Peter Stone. While the problem existed just as clearly in Neil Simon's Broadway script, Stone evidently had little desire to correct it. Bold action does not seem to be Stone's forté anyway, since most of the picture's jokes are holdovers from the Simon version and most of its charms traces back to Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (Sweet Charity's original source...
...prodigious and inventive a society have failed so conspicuously in so many areas? One flaw in the American psyche-and one of its strengths-is its single-minded concentration on one Big Problem at a time. In the past four decades, the nation's energies and imagination have been largely absorbed by the specter of economic instability, war, cold war and the nuclear arms race. At the same time, the rural American was becoming the urban American. The Negro became even more restive for social and economic equity. And the great engine of American success, industry, was practically given...
...flaw in this rude paradise was the government in faraway Georgetown, controlled by Negroes ever since Guyana won its independence from Britain three years ago. Jim and Harry Hart, the dominant brothers, feared the cancellation of their land lease, and feared it even more after last month's election consolidated the power of Forbes Burnham, Guyana's black Prime Minister. The Hart boys began to ponder the incredible idea of a homemade secessionist coup, one that would utilize the greediness of the bordering country, Venezuela...
...Bishop has written a 713-page anticlimax. It does not contain the massive flaw of William Manchester's The Death of a President-namely, a distaste for Lyndon Johnson's necessary assumption of power. But neither does it boast the cogency of the Manchester book, the pertinent details-nor even the drama. As for style, it simply clogs the mind. Concerning Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, for example, Bishop writes: "This multiphrenic city sitting alone on a hot prairie like an oasis spouting a fountain of silver coins gave its elixir to John F. Kennedy...