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...least of his less attractive side. With a similar conspiratorial and chatty tone, Lessing one-ups over her characters by pretending a sympathy she and the reader know she doesn't really mean. "Most definitely she did not want to think; it was extraordinary, the strength of her instinct not to examine that area of her life," Lessing writes of one of her victims. Such stylistic affinities with Lawrence permeate the story. It is a credit to Lessing's common sense, however, that she does not try her hand at the greater Lawrentian feat of sensualizing descriptive prose...
...things nearby. And HSA is, let's be frank, introducing that subtle element of sleazo-commercialism in the foyer of a building with an austere tradition, almost under the venerable antlers of Teddy Roosevelt and within range of the kindly gaze of LeBaron Russel Briggs. Anyone who feels the instinct to preserve whatever charms the Union offers unsullied might as well...
...foists symbolic roles upon them. As he confesses in the program notes. "Dion Anthony is the creative pagan acceptance of life fighting eternal war with the masochistic, life-denying spirit of Christianity as represented by Saint Anthony:" Margaret is the "eternal girl woman with a virtuous simplicity of instinct, properly oblivious to everything but the means to her end of maintaining the race;" Cybel is "an incarnation of Cybelle, the Earth Mother doomed to segregation as a pariah in a world of unnatural laws;" and last of all, Brown is "the visionless demi-god of our new materialistic myth...
MOST recent U.S. Presidents have suffered the frustration of issuing orders to the vast federal bureaucracy they supposedly commanded-only to discover that nothing happened. Insulated by layers of officialdom and protected by an almost biological instinct for self-perpetuation, the bureaucratic organism stubbornly resists change. But the votes indicating his huge re-election landslide were barely counted when Richard Nixon took a mighty swipe at this governmental inertia. He demanded that some 2,000 of his politically appointed men in sensitive spots throughout Washington submit their resignations. He would decide who should stay and who should...
...these are minor problems by themselves not enough to scuttle the film. A far more serious difficulty lies in the characterization, where Truffaut's once sure instinct for just the right gesture and just the right tone of voice has now deserted him. Most notable is the failure of Jean-Pierre Leaud's performance as Claude...