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...Making. The Broadway book had the grace to mock itself. In the end Charity was blessed by a good fairy -who turned out to be a costumed pitch woman plugging a CBS-TV show. Peter Stone's hollow adaptation takes itself seriously. Charity, maundering through Central Park, converses with a bunch of flower children who teach her the power of Love...
...Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...
...After a hollow, hilarious party at which the guests talk only in the language of commercials, a television director named Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides that he needs his baby sitter more than his children do. With her in tow, he ricochets from Paris to the Riviera to an idyllic island where he hopes to end his days. He gets his wish: what begins as a fable of ennui ends as a parable of evil...
...Author cannot deal with pieces. He must present the Life-Stream, the Continuum. But all our feeble intellects can perceive are pieces, so what could He do? I'll tell you what He did--He built for us a blank-white-nothing plain, peopled by two, maybe four-five hollow Kewpie Dolls. Very warm dolls, but hollow. Scattered on the white plain are hundreds of little tags, some of them hard to make out, but all right there. One will...
...that the other 5% can give the whole business a sour reputation. Car dealers insist that they average less than 1% profit on repair work. Other repair shops, said Robert Straub, president of the Independent Garage Owners of America, "are struggling to stay alive"but his testimony rang rather hollow after the reports of the steep markups...