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All possibly entertaining. But these writers have an irritating way of implying that their novels are more than mere divertissements, that in fact they are pointing to the way things were, or are, or will be, and they indulge in all sorts of name-dropping to enhance the illusion of...
First came approval of plans to build a number of new nuclear plants; then--last week--the announcement of a sale of enriched uranium to India. Perhaps the best example, however, of the Carter administration's softening of its earlier stand on nuclear energy is in its attitude towards the...
The Children of Paradise. A true epic, deeply compelling, visually unforgettable. Marcel Carne's masterpiece is set in eighteenth-century France, among the clowns, thieves, actors, pickpockets and peasants. It's impossible to do justice to this film in a mere paragraph, this story of three artists (an actor, a...
Rules of the Game. A good case could be made for this film as the best comedy ever made. It is certainly Renoir's best film. Renoir's work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy, bourgeoisie, peasantry or working class. This...
Few things are more infectious in the theater than spontaneous good fun and the warm feeling of sharing the evening with amusing, if slightly disreputable friends. Even by theatrical proxy, there is a certain insidious charm and exoticism in experiencing, through staged illusion, the magic of venturing into forbidden places...