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Golden's advice to long-suffering wives is patience. "Let your husband have his fling," he says. "Tolerate his withdrawal." After the football season is over, Golden reasons, the avid male viewer will return to his family-provided he is not a fanatic for basketball or hockey...
...Clowns" is the first act of the Polinskys' entertainment and, since it's written by Bertolt Brecht, it's also their one fling with a sure thing. Except that "Clowns" as adapted and performed by Theater Two is very minor Brecht indeed. Little more than a commercial of a parable in which it is demonstrated that even when acting under the banner of mutual aid men may actually be out to destroy each other. Case in point, a wooden dummy which the two clowns of the title systematically set about to dismantle. Since it's all over before...
...love is actually a moot point in this film. Antoine's one recorded moment of true passion remains his illicit fling with the shoe-store lady, Fabian Tabard, in Stolen Kisses. The first few notes of the Charles Trenet ballad ("I Wish You Love") that underlined the earlier film sneaks onto the soundtrack of Bed and Board every once and a while- but this time it quickly breaks off into an atonal clanging sound...
...principal wage earners travel to the central city to work. And they are not steeped in sin, at least by their own possibly self-serving accounts. Fewer than a fifth favor sex before marriage, and only one in ten believes that the neighbors would consider an occasional extramarital fling "a good thing...
...went on to describe the dictator in images redolent of death, decay and sickness. Stalin's "fingers are fat as grubs," his "cockroach whiskers leer," his laws are like horseshoes to fling "at the head, the eye or the groin." One version of the poem ended with Stalin savoring every execution like a raspberry...