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...servants. Arnolphe's master plan has been to keep Agnes innocent in body, and blank of mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins her to wife. The cream of the jest is that he enlists Arnolphe as a coconspirator, and that wariest of foxes helps to outfox himself...
...game was incredibly boring. Apathetic and overconfident, Harvard stank up the ice, and Brown was bad to begin with. Harvard stumbled into the lead but Jest it by the end of the second period. In the third period, Harvard finally rolled over and died, and as the Brown fans crushed their beer cans in ecstasy, the Bruins astonished themselves with the winning goal...
...Soldier Blue, or Honus as we come to know and love him, is certainly easily made jest of. Not only does he recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade" as he lingers tearfully over the bodies of his dead buddies, he also spends a good deal of the film trying to keep his socks dry. No wonder that he grimaces so at the sight of Miss Bergen's "tantalizing" body. Taking in the whole sordid scene with a knowing glance, Candice quickly browbeats Honus into submission, realizing, as Soldier Blue winces at the sound of her every four-letter word...
...question of finding
its most vital form, of finding something to love beyond an idea or an
id
...knocked out," declared Perry Rathbone. director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "No museum purchase funds can keep up with prices like that." Perhaps not. But Boston was sufficiently interested in the auction to discuss with Thomas Moving, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum, "half in jest, but half seriously," the idea that Boston and the Met pool their available funds to buy the Velásquez. The underbidder at Friday's auction, a firm of London dealers named Thomas Agnew. was rumored to be bidding on behalf of Washington's National Gallery...