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...firm attitude toward them. Modernism was an actively malevolent force in Chaplin's Modern Times; Tati sees it as nothing more than a minor nuisance. His greatest problem, however, is that unlike Chaplin-or Buster Keaton-he hasn't the faintest idea of how to link one gag to another, building the kind of comic line that tightens, tightens, tightens around them and ensnares the audience in analogous helplessness, the kind that results from masterfully orchestrated laughter...
...known whether Arnow has authorized a warrant for the arrest of the reporters, who may have broken the judge's "gag rule...
...casting doubt. This style is a slippery thing--you can't attack something that uses ambiguity as its Catch-22. The rejected artist was playing a practical joke; the successful artist affects ambivalent seriousness. Having been involved, you don't want to call it nonsense; having seen through the gag you don't want to call it art. Or say you don't find it funny, so you look for political allegory; but you find that far-fetched, so you search for farce, anything for security in meaning. But whether you finally take it seriously or not, you never hold...
...Counsel Rufus Edmisten, who doubles as Ervin's right-hand man on the staff, spend little time on the Washington social scene but find wherever they go that people are full of questions-which they must nearly always refuse to answer. Ervin has imposed no hard and fast gag rule, but, says Edmisten, "he expects us to act with discretion...
Last Christmas, Rolling Stone sent him a gag gift-a mock-up of a cover photograph of Davis with the billing, "Should the recording industry name an Emperor?" An attorney with little experience in the music field ("I thought Simon & Garfunkel was a law firm," he once noted of his pre-Columbia days), Davis was head of Columbia's U.S. records division by 1967. Described by a former associate as "Mr. Super Straight" and "Mr. Dignity," he was nonetheless one of the few record executives to recognize the rock revolution in its early days. For his efforts, Davis last...