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There are other examples of appearances fooling us. The best is Madame Lola, a lean black prostitute who ends up supporting Madame Rosa and Momo when her fellow prostitutes no longer send their children to the old woman. She is genuinely kind and genuinely cares, which belies her appearance as a prostitute. But that isn't all. In Momo's first taping he reveals that Madame Lola is really a former male fighter who has had hormone injections and now "peddles her ass." It is a revelation that comes as a complete surprise which means, even more, that whether...
...cries of a generation that would not go to war, a generation that could not support a system that it believed reaped extra dollars out of every platoon that charged into battle. Instead the talk in Congress is now of prudence and economy, and the virtues of a lean, hard fighting force. It is safe--even profitable--to forget the lessons of the past decade...
...month that holiday travel starts to soar, and this year vacationers will be offered a bagful of bargains in air fares−thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them...
...devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy toy elephant. But when they leave her at home, she pleads abuse to the neighbors, who fall for it and prepare her a special gourmet care package.) Truffaut does not lean heavy on the social commentary, as he did in "The 400 Blows," his first film about growing pains. He's less angry, less insistent, and generally less involved. He lets the town kids take over. And they delight...
...moral core of the play, a bit of a standoffish prig, perhaps, but still unstainably idealistic. In Rene Auberjonois's handling he is merely sweatily fretful, like someone who has just received word that he is up for an IRS audit. When it comes to the lean and hungry Cassius, Richard Dreyfuss looks like someone who makes substantial midnight raids on the fridge. More pertinently, he appears as the soul of sanity, a jarringly implausible refutation of the qualities of envy, thwarted ambition and deviousness that are an intrinsic part of Cassius' makeup...