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...murder plot itself, and the mock trial that follows it, Writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and Director Richard Quine make the mistake of thinking that the muse of comedy is a rubber-limbed contortionist, and sometimes stretch the fun to the breaking point. Luckily, the supporting cast shows such spirit that Lemmon has to work hard for his share of the laughs. As the gentlemen's gentleman who would not hesitate one moment to help rub out a superfluous lady, Terry-Thomas hyphenates the movie with tomfoolery, holding whole scenes together by letting his face fall apart...
...dead-often seems a creation of the proud will, not the passions. But for the careful ear there is strong music, cool and casually regular. Gregory is a highly professional craftsman who has chosen to work mostly in silver and pewter and dull bronze, rarely in gold. His muse is a plain girl, easily overlooked in flashy company-but the eye wanders back to her, for she has perfect skin, fine bones, a direct, grey gaze and a clear mind...
...muse notwithstanding, art in the Western world is a commodity. In U.S. dollars, the timely tabulation takes place in the high temple of auctioneering, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. When the collection of the late Wall Street stockbroker Ira Haupt went under the hammer last week, the question was: How fare the moderns...
...Artist, I am a Man, I am a Failure," Him tells Me, and throughout the play he expands on this theme, trying to explain himself to her. In the first and third acts, as the dialogue resonates between curt exchanges and wandering metaphorical soliloquies, the two bicker, muse, pet, and search vainly for common understandings. Their scenes together are separated by snatches of brash caricature in which "three weird sisters" babble deliriously: "Anything, Everything, Nothing, and Something were looking for eels in a tree, when along came Sleep pushing a wheelbarrow full of green mice...
Much op art is removed from the artist's subjective discovery. It is the result of a mechanical muse, and the artist becomes a computer programmer churning out visual experiences. Some, like moiré patterns, suddenly reveal new sensations that man never knew were within his visible province. But is it therefore science...