Word: howler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil's jaguars, tapirs and howler monkeys won a new lease on life last week when the government banned professional hunting. The law means that a dozen major skin exporters will have to close down. The authorities also issued a tough set of new regulations concerning amateur hunting, including a list of permissible game. Notably absent: all of the big cats, monkeys, toucans, manatees and all endangered species...
Righteous Lard. A line like that never sounds like a howler on paper, but in the theater it brings the house to a roar. Which is a tribute to the palpable miracles of timing and inflection that a director like Mike Nichols and an actor like Peter Falk can produce out of their sheer unfaltering professionalism. Falk is perfectly cast. He has just the right sag to the shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically...
...panoramic long shots of desert terrain. The third shows: Mark and Daria in the distance. Before MGM removed it from the prints, Mark said full-voiced on the soundtrack. "I always knew it would be like this." With the Open Theatre love scene directly before, the line was a howler. Antonioni claims it referred specifically to the desert, and the nature of the establishing shots confirms that. Abstracting the line from the absurdity of its context, the three-shot sequence extends the motif of unestablished point-of-view serving to unify the perception of director and characters. Mark and Daria...