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...liberally embellished biography of a woman who played muse to the Romantic era cannot really be called good, but it certainly is funny. The question is whether Writer-Director Robert Bolt achieved the hilarity by design or accident. His previous film work-for example, the scripts for those David Lean dirigibles Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter-has been pretty stiff and sobersided; silly, perhaps, but politely so. Here, making his debut as a film director, Bolt comes off rather like a De Mille with a university degree...
...guess at Ron Whyte's intent, it is that he wants us to look at two people spinning on the charred cinders of this planet who may be saying to themselves: "Look, the abyss over which you lean is yourself. The pain you feel is just as unendurable as you think it is. The jokes you make as a fencer against fate merely underline your epitaph." If so, the playwright may count his luck as equal to his talent, for one can scarcely imagine more gifted and sensitive actors than David Clennon and Bella Jarrett for conveying his purpose...
Even readers who agree with the parajournalists of Women's Liberation are often embarrassed to find their positions taken with so much self-pity and self-righteousness, with such bloated excesses of tractarian rhetoric. In stark contrast stand the lean, sharp novels of British writers like Edna O'Brien and Margaret Drabble, and American fictionists like Joan Didion...
SUNDAY: Some Like It Hot. 1959 Billy Wilder spoof stars Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. CH. 56, 6 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Lawrence of Arabia. A stirring romantic intelligent and magnificent epic. David Lean's 1962 biography of T.E. Lawrence won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and vaulted Peter O'Toole to stardom. First time on television. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Concluded Monday night...
Kahn's prolonged meditation on substance, even through the lean years of the Depression and World War II when he built almost nothing independently, had immense consequences for his later work. For even the most complex of his buildings, the intricate massing of volume and void at Dacca or the planning of the Salk Institute, are also a demonstration of the bare rudiments of architecture. "I learned about order, order itself. That the brick wanted to be brick and nothing else, the stone stone, the concrete concrete. I just learned it so thoroughly, the orders and the elements...