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...KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all-but-bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and, at times, almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts...
WAITING FOR THE END, by Leslie Fiedler. In one of the most infuriatingly quotable books of the year, the angry professor finds signs of the apocalypse in homosexuality, pseudo-Zen, youth cults, U.S. Presidents, and most of all in current fiction. The only glimmer of hope Fiedler can find is the excellent state of U.S. poetry; he might have added criticism, of which he is one of the brightest younger lights...
...Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep, a blinding flutter of butterfly wings which gape apart to reveal a fissure roiling like some hellish furnace. It was a fiery glimmer into...
...Saxophonist Marshall Royal, Trumpeter Snooky Young and Guitarist Freddy Green are all heartfelt blues soloists. Bassist Buddy Catlett, the band's newest member, gives the whole orchestra a subtle and highly advanced sense of rhythm. Keenly aware of all these virtues, Basie never lets his audience get a glimmer of the solemn musicianship behind them. "Now a little foot-pattin' music," he announces happily. Then he sits down and sizzles away into the glass-toned jazz arrangements his band alone can play...
...final scene flickering with pathos, he breaks down and asks: "Was it because you hated me? You couldn't stand me?" Half-mockingly, Thérèse replies: "It was because of your pines ... I wanted them for myself. Perhaps it was to see a glimmer of uncertainty in your eyes." Author Mauriac, who wrote the dialogue for this first screen adaptation of his work, supplies no simple answer. A connoisseur of human corruption, he peoples his novels with characters sidetracked by evil in their blind search for God. On film, Thérèse seems likely...