Word: musee
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...deft comic timing give the play a believable illogic in which farce becomes fairy tale. As one of the world's funnier women, Mildred Natwick can verbally give a line the same corkscrewy twist that Margaret Rutherford manages with massive facial quirks. Nowadays, when even the comic muse pulls a long face, a smiling, unalloyed joy awaits those who hotfoot it to Barefoot...
...rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in the bottom land. Deep among the whispering pine and the hemlock, among the silver aspen and birch, the bears dig into windfalls for grubs. Rainbow trout, cutthroat and whitefish tumble in Beetle and Winkum Creeks...
...Freud, Feiffer's cartoon characters are forever trying to find themselves and at the same time break through to others. "Do I really love her," Feiffer youths keep asking themselves, "or is she just a fertility symbol?" "Is it passion that makes me kiss him," their girls muse, "or am I just acting out an anti-male hostility aggression through my lips...
High Fees. All in all, winners in 56 categories got Clios for individual excellence (a Clio, named for the muse of history, is a slim gold statuette that could be the result of an affair between an Oscar and an Emmy). Then there were maybe a dozen canonizations-a ceremony raising selected older commercials to the status of "Classics." For example, that box of Tide that used to stand under the cypress tree on the Monterey Peninsula is now in the hall of fame with Willie the Penguin, The Marlboro Man, and the yellow that went for Pepsodent...
...third filmlet concerns one Gabrielle Fenayrou, who, while never bloodying her pretty hands, was the muse for two murderers. Gabrielle lives with a gouty old husband and keeps a handsome young lover. One afternoon while tangoing (the year is 1913), he tells her he is betrothed to another-but, with true Gallic practicality, assures her that this need not interrupt their dalliance for a moment. Gabrielle, combining sang-froid with S. Freud, goes along with this, and together they plot to kill her husband. But the lover's pistol only clicks, and the husband shoots him instead. Gabrielle...