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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie lacks the intense irony of The Exterminating Angel and Viridiana. The tone is farcical, the humor sharp but somehow never wounding. Bunuel could not ever be benign, but here he seems almost lighthearted. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is his most blithe and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dinner for Six | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

Lost Uplift. None of the theories, however, explain why this year's un-festive gloom clings only to Munich and other Bavarian cities. In the Rhineland, the freewheeling Karneval was going strong last week, as noisy and popular as ever. Tickets to Sitzungen (cabaret entertainments) were sold out; dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Farewell to Fasching? | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

SMILING at the assembled leaders of all branches of the Government, Richard Nixon made a lighthearted political sally early in his State of the Union speech. "There are more candidates for the presidency in this chamber today than there probably have been at any one time in the whole history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of a Nonpolitical Speech | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Typical of the tricks played is a passage near the beginning where oboe and double bass are in the usual baroque soprano-to-bass opposition. Suddenly the bass drops away but a listener cannot but help hear the implied harmonies in the highly regular resolution. More lighthearted is the duet...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Weekend Music | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

From the original Promised Land this week comes the first Israeli musical, To Live Another Summer-To Pass Another Winter, a lighthearted treatment of the generation gap as well as the struggle with the Arabs. The forthcoming F. Jasmine Addams is Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Fabulous Invalid's New Symptoms | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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