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Cliff Gorman, as an Israeli intelligence officer, is what he is: a good comic actor in desperate need of a gag. Richard Attenborough, as the cracked mastermind of the plot, gamely gives more of himself than his small role calls for or can sustain. John V. Lindsay plays a U.S. Senator, the father of one of the kidnaped girls, pretty much as he played being mayor of New York City - like a B-picture leading man. At that, he is not the worst thing about this flaccid, fatuous film, though with such wealth to choose from, it is hard...
...Gag Jane...
...Jane Alpert has dropped bombing and is into women's lib [Jan. 27]. What greater "recommendation" could we ask for the women's liberation movement and the Equal Rights Amendment? Couldn't somebody have put a gag in her mouth, at least until the ERA is passed...
Such onslaughts have their liabilities. The cartoon's first obligation is to be pithy; faces and facts may be stretched to fit a gag. Editorial artists work best against rather than for something, and not every issue is as black and white as the drawing proclaims. That lack of shading and subtlety obviously influenced New York Times Founder Adolph Ochs when he kept sketches from his paper's editorial page-a tradition that is maintained today. "A cartoon," Ochs is said to have complained, "cannot say 'On the other hand.'" On the other hand, a cartoon...
...classes. Cohen, 26, "infused" jokes into the professor's lecture-on abnormal psychology-and had him begin by saying, "I consider myself particularly qualified to discuss troubled people because I've been both a student and a teacher here at U.S.C." The professor concluded his gag-filled talk by explaining how a student could measure his mental health: "Statistically, about one of every three persons is troubled. I'd like each of you to think of your two closest friends. If they both seem all right to you-then you're the one." He left...