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...concedes with a smile. Fisher does not appear to enjoy finding words or situations that might typify him, and it is only with a sanctimonious and mocking knitting-of-the-brows that he vows to attach himself ultimately to a rich Harvard graduate and retire to a gate keeper's cottage. Even such sarcastic complacency does not sit well with Fisher and after a brief pause his large right hand is combing the air vigorously and he is erasing the pretty image of the gate-keeper's cottage and the sedentary notion of retirement. Fisher is good at resisting such...
...Administration dragged down by Watergate. His prestige may have been inflated, but he had laid the groundwork for détente with the Soviet Union and relations with China, worked out the details to end U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War and acted as the professorial peace keeper in the Middle East. Since then he has suffered a spate of setbacks...
...Charles Adams cartoon character who later became known as Uncle Fester. He delivers one-liners like Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes (whose film image dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this...
...about the rabbits, George." The plea is from John Steinbeck's naturalistic opus Of Mice and Men. The pleader is Lennie, a ruined hulk who grasps ideas with his hands instead of his brain. Looming about the California farm land, Lennie is barely held in tow by his keeper George. Together, the two migratory workers enjoy a classic symbiosis, the blending of brute strength and animal cunning...
Historical Fumes. Martin Butlin, keeper of the British Collection at the Tate Gallery, points out in the catalogue that Turner's cataclysms were meant to replace the older European tradition of personified myth-wrathful Zeus and so forth-and thus they moralize nature itself. Turner, a self-taught man, was no classical scholar, and he made blunders of erudition about myth and history. Yet as Butlin puts it, "Turner's moral philosophy was a matter of passion and visual expression, not of strict archaeology and attention to sources . . . The fumes of history filled his brain...