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...left with two hours of Napoleon sitting in his villas, suffering cardiac spasms-a mild attack while mounting Billie Whitelaw, a worse one while mounting a horse-and grinding out fatuities like "Power is my art; I love it the way a musician loves his instrument." The routine virtuosity of good professional actors fills the gaps-but only with the kind of narcissism that mocks the story. No eagle, caged or free, could survive this taxidermy...
Born in Britain, the deceptively mild-looking Porter has a well-deserved reputation as an earthy and adroit negotiator. But he also went to Paris with a special franchise. His predecessors-Averell Harriman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bruce-all treated the talks seriously, partly because U.S. domestic politics demanded it, and partly because there was still hope that the Communists would negotiate. Porter's quite different mandate is to stop the talks from being used as a Viet Cong soapbox-even if it means being beastly to the Communists...
...natural pride, to do it well. That's the most you can say for Friedkin's narcotics cops. But it's the most you can say for most of us in this world, and for projecting that bland truth up onto the silver screen. Friedkin deserves at least mild congratulations...
...World," has extraordinary power to awaken certain childhood stereotypes of foreign lands, like Siam, Persia, or China. But even better is the Haunted House. In this house, foot-high three-dimensional translucent women wail for demon lovers, tombstones topple over revealing their gruesome contents--the entire effect alternates between mild hysteria and wondering how those full size three dimensional ghosts are done. But Disney's "imagineers" aren't telling...
...Kaprou, originator of the Happening, gives a course on happenings, which is a happening. Several others give Multi-Media Laboratory II, which utilizes cinema, synthesizers, strobe lights, and projectors in combination with theater. Yet another course concentrates on music of the sublime, especially music that induces trancelike states. The mild hysteria underlying each of these courses seems born and bred at Disneyland. In the new Academic environment, the experience is given a new theoretical and often satirical thrust, but there still remains the intrinsic fascination of the possibility of technology to alter states of consciousness, or in the words...