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She and He, directed by Susumu Hani, 35, is an exquisitely ironical tragedy of progress. The hero (Eiji Okada), a rising young executive who lives in a handsome Tokyo housing development, discovers to his dismay that one of his old college chums is living in the ragman's row...
A Shot in the Dark. Four shots, in fact. A police car roars up to the porte-cochere of a chateau and out steps-sacrebleu!-it is the terror of Montmartre, the Napoleon of criminology! It is Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the Sureté. Fresh from his daring exploits...
De Maupassant's fiction has been likened to that of "a peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple." It is Cheever's peculiar distinction to make his readers relish the Winesap flesh at the same time as he etymologizes on the worm: the importance of his...
He wrote all the time, but in those days there was nothing much to distinguish his work from 20 other short-story writers. The tone of the time was bleak, flat, ironical. He achieved this style, but it was not really his. Nor did the times suit his lyrical temperament...
There is always a chance that humor, good or dubious, will work some unexpected hurt. I would be the last to wish that this might be so. In a collection of ironical essays commented on recently in the CRIMSON and with which I am sufficiently identified, mention is made of...