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...Inspired by the Marinetti manifesto, a second appeared the next year signed by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla-futurism's big five. Among other things, it declared that THE NAME OF "MAD MAN" WITH WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO GAG ALL INNOVATORS SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS A TITLE OF HONOR. The five themselves sounded a bit mad with anti-tradition slogans of "Burn the museums!" and "Drain the canals of Venice!" But their underlying purpose could not have been more serious. "We choose to concentrate our attention on things...
Starts Sunday: G. B. Shaw plus Peter Sellers plus Sophia Loren plus Alastair Sim plusplus Vittorio De Sica ought to equal something grand, zany and sparkling. But THE MILLIONAIRESS is merely routine gag comedy all too much of the time. In point of fact, this is a very dud avocado, indeed. Co-featured is a travesty of William Faulkner, plagiaristically entitled SANCTUARY. Don't expect to recognize the characters if you read the book. Lee Remick whimpers as Temple Drake, and Yves Montand is hopelessly miscast as her down and way-out croole lover. Daily from...
...comic items--dragoons drop their rifles on each other's feet, march in the wrong direction, and traipse through interminable jerky morrices with the female chorus of "twenty lovesick maidens" (some twelve in number). One budding Cantinflas, Kenneth Tiger, is even made to flourish that old gag prop, the rubber sword...
...gag cannot stop running. Purchasing the French rights for Aub's "biography," simply titled Jusep Torres Campalans, Gallimard pulled out the stops. Needing a few sketches from J.T.C.'s "middle period," the publisher asked Aub to fill the gap. In moments, on the back of office stationery, he did. A big first printing of 5,000 is selling well, aided by Gallimard's deft exploitation of France's latest art world celebrity. Had he lived, J.T.C. would have been gratified...
...emphasized that "in no sense is the suggested resolution a gag rule, as some have hastily said." We urge not that the President refrain from freely voicing his personal views, but simply that he and the vice-President be restrained in the manner that the resolution suggests, Hornblow said...