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...doesn't wear underwear? That on arrival at Logan, the cops bust her? That in order to secure her release Peter and John then set but to blackmail a cop who is dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...
Half the time it seems devoted only to undermining the studio-born materials with which Williams has been saddled. And so the continuing "suspense" music contains an echo of mock heroics and banal conversations that are staged in comical settings, like a San Francisco zoo. Of course, such time-honored methods of beating the Hollywood system are the stuff of which auteurs are made--except that in Williams' case, he never goes beyond such kamikaze tactics...
...Chirico's St. George Killing the Dragon, 1940, can only be explained in terms of this problem. St. George, with its glutinous, worried paint, its muddily incoherent color and its torpid drawing, would hardly pass as a student academy piece; it is recognizable, though only just, as a mock Titian. But behind it one can sense manic obstinacy, as though De Chirico were trying to root himself in the past and abolish the present. Significantly, it bears a Latin inscription: "De Chirico, the best painter, painted this...
...Mozartiana that completed the program is an unusual work, most notable in the final Theme and Variations movement. The lighter moments were many: a strings-celeste variation that sounded like bad ballet music, a jazz-like clarinet cadenza, and some frantic runs for the strings leading perfectly to the mock ending. Robert Portney's playing was dazzling in the solo violin variations...
...fortune of acting virtuosity. It is fantastic to see this miniature human being mimic the mannerisms of his elders so exactly. At one point he tells about a racist insult he received at a neighborhood store and then brings down the house when he turns to the audience with mock exasperation and says, "I just can't get no respect." Lenny Bari does a wonderful job as the white juvenile delinquent who loves "what the girls have" but never quite gets it. In the prosaically titled by wonderfully written song "If I Had a Million Dollars" Lenny sings that...