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...platitudes about fate, courage and honor, and asks his actors to breathe life into them. The burden falls to O'Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything he does looks intensely talented. But it hardly ever looks like Lord...
...doesn't matter whether he was killed by the Ku Klux Klan or the Black Muslims: retribution was exacted. As a result of the violence, the sons and daughters of the victim and murderers are being initiated into manhood too early and will quickly become heirs to the violence of Negroes and whites which racism has forced upon us and which finally brought an end to Malcolm X. By dissenting, Malcolm was trying to end the tragic cycle...
...true, more in the irresponsible way of a war correspondent than on the plodding grind of a subaltern with his regiment; but then that is the only way--bar miracles--in which a man can see three campaigns in four years. Having to give the first years of his manhood to war-making, he characteristically gave them in the way that was likely to prove most fruitful of experience for use afterwards...
Having attained the seventh age of the public person, grand old manhood, Robert Frost spent a large part of his last two decades receiving the accolades of national affection. But there is a perverse quality of dismissal about a nation's affection, as if the recipient were being asked while still alive to mount a bronze horse, assume a statuary stare, and to refrain from doing anything that would require the recutting of the inscription on his pedestal...
Transmigration of souls is not the ideal raw material for a titillating comedy, and after the unsettling revelation of Debbie's manhood, there are few surprises and even fewer laughs in this sex scramble based on George Axelrod's Broadway flop. Charlie is a rakish Hollywood screenwriter who has a way with other men's wives. Shot by a jealous husband (Walter Matthau), the roue returns to life in flesh-toned Reynolds wrap, presumably to see how the other half lives. "It's the Old Testament!" shouts Curtis as the miracle dawns. "The tables have turned...