Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marceau has obviously tutored himself on early Charlie Chaplin. The Little Tramp wore a derby; Marceau's Bip character sports a dented stovepipe hat. In The Tramp's hand was a flower; from Bip's hat sprouts a rose. Both share the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt is. In nursing that hurt, Marcel Marceau shows himself to be a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of empty space, an eloquent poet of silence...
...pretty soon you realize that this straight-faced world is slightly magic around the edges. Evil is a man in a striped suit and derby hat who tries to destroy dreams. He is a dictatorial mayor and selfish capitalist and doesn't believe that Sandcastle Pier is a boat. Of course it is. We registered it under the laws of the new country of Liberama. And it makes so many people happy that...
...Holy See did not want to spare a top man for that messy post. But the French were charmed by Roncalli's humility and abilities as a raconteur?as well as by his reputation as "a heavy fork"?and in 1953 Pius XII gave him a red hat and the metropolitan see of Venice...
...Johnson, like a sleight-of-hand artist who asks a member of the audience to check his top hat for rabbits, skillfully engages the reader in his literary experiments. Sometimes he talks to him directly about the problems of writing. Achim begins this way: "So I thought I'd start out with a simple sentence, gravely, something like: she telephoned him, period, then I'd add: across the border, casually, as though it were the most natural thing in the world, as a surprise, to make you think you understand." Sometimes he studs his text with disarming headlines...
...this might have made an apt subject for contemplative derision had it not been for a solidly built man standing on a rock above the scene, wearing pale brown prescription glasses, a white lumber jacket, and a cowboy hat over hair that flew straight back like porcupine quills. This was George Stevens, beyond question the most respected and probably the most able director in the American film industry, whose reputation was assured by movies like A Place in the Sun and The Diary of Anne Frank. He is now risking it by betting that he can tell The Greatest Story...