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...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Henry Livings, is incongruous, unpredictable and farcical. So is Dustin Hoffman's performance as a British "nit." So is Alan Arkin's direction. So is life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...scene. The film's conceptual flaw is in the character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman but can also seem a bit of a nit, a boy rover in a working-class wonderland. Tested against cold reality, his story rings false; yet Varda gives it the aura of just-discovered truth, of a vision entirely personal and poetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Philandering Tale | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Even President Bunting became impatient with RGA's nit-picking at a meeting last Fall and stunned the representatives by asking them to consider abolishing social rules. RGA responded in a predictable fashion; it appointed a committee, which plodded along for five months before making any recommendations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ruined Maid | 4/30/1966 | See Source »

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