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...might be tempting to label this low level of analysis as a debasement of the ongoing political dialogue in this country, for its ignorance of practical policy standpoints and cultural dynamics. However, there is a growing body of research that suggests much of voting preference is, like amour fou, deaf, dumb and hopelessly impulsive...
...film is projected onscreen, Rocky regulars mime each character's words and gestures in meticulous drag onstage, and the audience talks back to the movie and, on cue, scatters comic props throughout the theater. This is movie mania at its participatory best: a nationwide epidemic of I'amour fou...
...that includes Siren of the Tropics, Zouzou and Princess Tam-Tam. Another form of volcanic energy was unleashed in the '50s TV shows headlined by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. A package of their zaniest work, When TV Was Funny (Feb. 8), should prove that the French are not fou in their amour de Jer. This year will mark 50 years since the death, at 24, of the movies' all-time tragic man-boy, James Dean. A DVD will package his three starring films--East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant--as well as a new documentary assessing...
...trailing them, she glances at the corpse and says, ?That?s one bastard less.? When Louis observes that ?You see evil everywhere,? she replies, ?It is everywhere.? Yet Truffaut wants Julie to be an alluring creature, so that Louis? love for her is elevated from masochistic wimpery to amour fou. Or at least amour noir. ?I know what you?re doing,? the ailing Louis tell her toward the end, ?and I don?t care. I?m not sorry I met you. I?m not sorry I killed for you. I?m not sorry that I love you.? In the book...
...tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver in the "at" when he pleads "At least please telephone" and the octave drop on that lusty...