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...enjoy writing about most--Bernice Gera, first lady umpire; the housewives whose biggest thrill in life is participating in the Pillsbury Bake-Off. The condescension, even mockery, is almost unavoidable. Even when you suspect she's right on target--when she says that Pat Loud "has made a fool of herself on television, and now she is that Jan Morris has become not a woman but a girl, "and worst of all, a 47-year-old Cosmopolitan girl"--you want to draw back a little because of the harshness, the lack of sympathy...
...fool can have confrontation You can press at the wrong time and get the wrong answer, or you can work on people. You have got to have a sense of timing. You can't learn it, you can't read books about it, you can't lecture on it. You've got to have instinctive timing, which sometimes I've got right and sometimes I've got wrong. If I'd tried to force the pace beyond what a democratic trade union movement was ready to stand, I could have got a dramatic...
...their teacher, a scholarly and enormously self-centered young dandy named Alfred Honore Pallantine, comes between them. Jessie, taken with his polish and crudition, falls in love with him, ditches Groch and spends most of her time chasing Pallantine around, squandering money on clothes and generally making a fool of herself. Groch, meanwhile, fills into a deep depression that centers around Pallantine, who has stolen his sweetheart and failed to recognize his artistic talent. And Pallantine, no less miserable himself, falls in love with a high-society girl who spurns him. The characters interact in the worst imaginable way, each...
...good old American vulgarity can really do. And the film is surprisingly serious about the usually cliched conflict between European urbanity and Doyle's simple "I'm an American and we're the best so fuck you" attitude. He proves his courage, yes, but he also makes a complete fool of himself--and, wonder of wonders in a picture like this--he shows monstrous inefficiency. Very un-American and very unpoheevian-like. He's much more loveable this way, and surrounded by Marseilles's exotic side-streets his vulnerability takes on a meaning lost in the mad avenues...
With all the first-rate music available at the nearest record store, one would be a fool to pay $10 to sit in a crowded room to see which of his "200 pairs of glasses" Elton John will wear...