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...then a few bits gleam. Hoffman's sluggish nasal metabolism is still amusing if familiar; Barbara Harris has a few moving moments as an auditioning singer with only three good notes; and the late David Burns is the archetypal Jewish father who seems to have sired every writer from Philip Roth to Erich Segal. But that troupe would be funny reading subway signs. Maybe more...
...fine camera eye. The novel suggests a suite of woodcuts; the earlier film was, appropriately, black-and-white gothic. Though this Wuthering Heights is in color, it is suggestive of death and transfiguration. The Yorkshire landscape has never seemed so malignant; filters block sunlight so that skies gleam while grounds are plunged in darkness, recalling the paintings of Magritte...
Karen Black, the most delightful piece of Five Easy Pieces, agrees. "Sex is a good subject," she says. "But if your sense of sex is covert and your ideas about sex bring an aberrated gleam to your eye, the scene is going to be below my level of acceptability." How's that again? "Sexuality has more to do with it than just going to bed with someone. It has to do with loving, listening, touching, making the other person happy." Joanna Shimkus (The Virgin and the Gypsy) is, like Ali MacGraw, a model turned actress?with a special, highly charged...
Bathed in the Orient's gleam...
...same is true of the cities on the Continent. Rebuilt or refurbished since World War II, they gleam and they function. Crime is a frequent outrage, but not an epidemic. Police are not loved, but they are not the target of guerrilla warfare. Drug abuse is growing, but it is still an aberration, not a commonplace. In Paris, even the telephones seem to work better than in New York now, though that must surely be an illusion. All round, within easy commuting distance by clean, modern train, are the beauties and playgrounds of a wealthy, comfortable continent...