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...play with, Winston Churchill created the toy world of "Laurania" in which a "dictator" is overthrown by a liberal revolution; then, as happened often enough later, the liberals find that they have set sinister forces in motion. Before they are suppressed, Laurania is rent by explosions, duels, gunshot and high-flown mayhem, all set forth in an absurdly magnificent style...
...wrath and fierce Achilles (Stanley Baker), both with arms like lath? They look, as on the field of Mars they clash, like aging brokers at a game of squash. They talk like brokers, too, except when the scriptwriter tries to belt out a Homer but winds up with a high-flown foul, e.g., "Tell her she will walk in all my dreams...
...exclusive Tropico Hotel. Shelley keeps mooning at the snowy WarnerColor peaks of the High Sierras and speculating that it must be mighty clean up there. "Cold, too," says Jack, and goes back to laying his plans. Scripter W. R. (This Gun For Hire) Burnett still has about 30 minutes to kill before he can get around to his killing finish; so he sends Palance off on a romantic goose chase after a farmer's daughter (Lori Nelson), who has a tendency to the same high-flown appreciation of CinemaScopic nature as Shelley. "My!" Lori trills...
...quick word of kudos for your Art section. It is an outstanding section in an outstanding magazine. As an interpreter of art history and a translator of the high-flown language of art critics, it is without peer in the field; its lack of condescension is refreshing, and in no wise detracts from the impression it gives of being knowledgeable...
This unhappy tale is told in the first person, a technique that fails because the author predicates a low intellectual ceiling yet a high level of sensibility for Max Harper, and systematically violates both. He contradicts the hero's simplicity by putting such high-flown ideas in his head as this: "A man's mind is the scales and his heart is the balance, and the weight of a matter depends on the heaviness of the heart...