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...Playboy of the Western World. Torrents of gorgeous Irish talk, miles of fine Irish scenery, and some splendid acting almost offset the main flaw in this film version of Synge's play: Actress Siobhan McKenna should not still be playing colleens...
Next in the U.S. reaction was what was called the "empty-chair" approach. That would mean proceeding with plans for Atlantic partnership and European union as if De Gaulle's France were merely absent from the room. But there is one fatal flaw: France is not absent, and it is difficult to imagine any sort of economic, military or political plan for Western Europe that does not need, and must not seek to accommodate, France's presence...
...permanent magnets of astonishing power. Into a small hunk of fancy alloy, or a little bit of fragile ceramic, they have built all the pulling power of a hefty electromagnet without its awkward current-carrying coils. But in spite of their handiness. the new magnets have a built-in flaw: their pull is permanent. They lack practical versatility because their fierce attraction for iron-bearing metal cannot be turned off at will, unlike the clumsiest electromagnet, which can be controlled by the flick of a switch...
...than setting the drama on fire. Part of the trouble is the arena stage: Desire's sense of puritanically suffocated beings seeps away on a wall-less stage, and, paradoxically, the movie-close-up intimacy of such a stage makes silence more dramatically potent than speech. The deepest flaw is O'Neill's failure to understand the essence of the Greek tragedies from which he borrowed. The Greek hero was a man trying to be god and failing, the tragedy of overweening pride. O'Neill's heroes indict god for failing...
This practice of running hard even though there is no race may be a sign of what many of his fellow Congressmen consider to be Mills's besetting flaw: an apparent insecurity that sometimes makes him overcautious. The flaw is all the more puzzling in that, far more than most men, Mills has escaped defeats and detours in life. He is that fortunate rarity, a man who has fulfilled his boyhood dreams...