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...product, it is also rather predictable. When a married bureaucrat (Jean Rochefort) conceives a passion for a flashy Paris model (Anny Duperey), we have no doubt that he is going to bed her in the final reel - after first undergoing a series of ritual humiliations befitting a middle-aged fool who tries to play the swinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flaky Farce | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...great bursar's card fiasco, the Office of Fiscal/Services issued picture-less cards, and then discovered the magnetic tape that was supposed to be a fool-proof identification wouldn't go through the machines the library system used to check out books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red tape | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...been embarrassed, but there is something more shaming still in the story of a freshman who fell four floors off the fire-escape of Grays, in the Yard. She is alive and well, needless to say, but will probably deny that the incident ever occurred. Do not let her fool you. After her accident, the proctors issued a memo to all Yard freshmen. The memo did not say "Do not sit on fire-escapes--; rather, it entreatied the Yard freshmen not to fall off the fire-escapes. The plunger ought to be proud, not ashamed, as she has instituted...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...best parody is only barely distinguishable from its victim), and he, the mocking schoolboy, becomes the personification of his school. Similarly, denatured anarchy can exist in the King's Court, the eunuch in the harem, and the Harlequin can blend into the royal robes. Christ, the ultimate fool in his renunciation of worldly existence, can exist in the world but not of it; unfortunately, the institution of the Church and Christianity must live in this world and of it, and so it evolves from the mouse that roared into the whimpering elephant it set out to destroy...

Author: By Brick Maverick, | Title: In Hilaritate Tristis, In Tristia Hilaris | 5/25/1977 | See Source »

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