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...convey's Pomme's unique charm through a crooked smile, a flash of the eyes, or a sudden grimace. Shyly licking clean a spoon of chocolate ice cream when she meets Francois, Huppert is as absorbed in the eating as she is in the flirting--her Pomme is guileless. The only flaw in the performance must be attributed to a weakness in the script: although Huppert is a convincingly distraught Pomme at the end of the film, it's difficult to believe she's the same Pomme that has appeared throughout the rest of The Lacemaker...

Author: By Tim Noah, | Title: An Ode to Innocence | 11/18/1977 | See Source »

...tell a joke if her life depended on it. Tony tried to figure it out one time, what it is she does. He says she has this uncanny ability to project you back into an infantile atmosphere, and you are suddenly a little kid again. There is something utterly guileless about her. She's a natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Trial of Brother Jero and Jero's Metamorphosis, at the Loeb Mainstage, the mistake is made by the other characters who think they know the true nature of Jero, an evangelist. Jero seems to be a guileless prophet saving souls. But he is really a beguiling con man who profits no one but himself. This funny moralistic play, written by Nigeria's leading playwright and directed by visiting director Harold Scott '57 gives a humorous evocation of the "temptations" in contemporary African life. And it gives anyone interested in working on production or costuming an opportunity to convey an unusual...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Mistakes to Enjoy | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...similar softening occurs in the characterization of Guthrie himself. David Carradine is an attractive performer, but his Guthrie is all guileless sweetness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Bound for Boredom | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Stan Hansen, a sea creature (called cul-de-sac-of-pus by his friends) so guileless and cunning that he shouldn't even be allowed to make neurological decongestant ads or even be on welfare, one-two-threed his way into a state of protoplasmic regret when Bruno finished dicing him through the Great Steel Cage. He actually ripped Hanson's face off--yanked the pulpy flesh right off his doggone skull. Ex-transvestite. Hansen, whose eyes had long since disappeared to leave only streams of orange blood, mistook a kindly referree for his phantom foe. But he didn...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

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