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Limelight was essentially a tragedy, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and A King In New York bitter social satires. Countess, his first film in over ten years, marks Chaplin's return to a kind of comedy he hadn't created since Modern Times. In many respects the comedy is similar to that of the earlier films. Though American comedy since Lubitsch and Wilder has tended increasingly toward the verbal, Chaplin still largely ignores the potential of comic dialogue, emphasizing the visual jokes instead...
...carries more magic than ever in Western Europe, and Bobby's political hosts scored more points with their constituents close at hand than New York's junior Senator did with his far away. He spent 70 minutes with De Gaulle, and even if he only said, "Bonjour, Monsieur le Président, il fait froid aujourd'hui," the fact of the meeting, as Marshall McLuhan might observe, was more significant than its content...
...19th century recedes into perspective, it becomes clear that the age was in every respect the equal of the great art epochs of the past and that among its greatest giants was Edouard Manet, one of the first artists to concern himself exclusively with modern times. "We laugh at Monsieur Manet," wrote Emile Zola 100 years ago. "It will be our sons who go into ecstasies over his canvases." Indeed, he is now ranked with Cezanne as one of the major precursors of 20th century painting. The problem is that his once scorned works are now so highly prized...
There was nothing but silence, however, from modern art's most famous master. "Monsieur and Madame are not at home," squawked a loudspeaker hooked up to the electronically operated gate of his villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must...
...guerrilla-infested and in South Viet Nam. Sihanouk claimed it was peace-loving and in Cambodia, huffily suggested that the U.S. did not recognize that his country had any frontiers at all. With that, Sihanouk last week abruptly passed word that Harriman was no longer welcome. "I am 'Monsieur' Sihanouk, ethnically Cambodian, and do not exist according to the American conception," Snookie sniffed. "Therefore, it is not possible to hold talks with...