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Like Don Quixote, Nazarin is the traditional Spanish visionary-fool, who perceives what others cannot and becomes a mirror in which evil men see only themselves. But Buňuel, who has lived and worked in Mexico for more than 20 years, is no Cervantes, his portrait of the tyrannized, superstition-racked land is as primitive as the peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian...
Theatregoers of today can reasonably be expected to show familiarity with the stock characters of the old Italian commedia dell'arte, from which Shakespeare took the five low-comedy figures that Berowne ticks off as "The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy." Respectively, Holofernes corresponds to the dottore, Armado to the capitano, Nathaniel to the pantalone and parasite, Moth (a wit) and Costard (a dimwit) to the comic servants (zanni). But it seems that Shakespeare also had in mind here poking fun at such now-forgotten men as Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Hervey, and John Florio...
...hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time at the family dinner table. In exasperation, Papa Morgenstern challenged his son-in-law to make films as good as the ones he criticized-and provided enough money for the brash young man to make a fool of himself...
...John, a fixture at Boston's rock gatherings, had, by now, clambered up on stage, with a glint sincerely in his eyes, and had begun as usual to make a fool of himself. The crowd booed. John shouted, over the Earth Opera's fading chords, "I'm not mad. You all are" Which wasn't true anyway but what the hell...
Casting off from Casablanca last March 29, Delta Airlines Pilot Hugo Vihlen, 36, confidently squared away his six-foot sailboat, April Fool, and shaped a course for Miami Beach, 4,100 sea miles distant. For 84 days, Vihlen bobbed and tossed in the prevailing easterlies, subsisted on little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came...