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...South Dakota," a disquieting narrative about a teenage boy who abandons his family and his pregnant girl friend in search of nothing better, has more serious value then almost anything Friedman has done. Flashes of his bizarre humor also appear occasionally, as in "Before All Hell Breaks Loose," an ode to the Apocalypse...
Kael criticizes A Woman Under the Influence for being "entirely tendentious: it's all planned, yet is isn't thought out." Her initial premise is wrong; Cassavetes is no Laingian disciple. Laing's The Politics of Experience is an ode to schizophrenia. He claims that they aren't really mad; but that society is. The thrust of the movie is not, however, to explore the reaches of madness but to scrutinize the problems of a love relationship. To call Cassavetes a Laingian is to assume that he analyzes what he sees the same way an intellectual does. But the only...
...rumblings that it was coming, that this was the big year. In early February, veteran New Yorker writer Brendan Gill published a thick volume called Here at The New Yorker, a sort of semi-official biography of the magazine. Every review carefully noted that it was a 50th birthday, ode to The New Yorker, and in the reviews, the magazine enjoyed an almost embarrassing free ride. Critics tripped over each other to salute The New Yorker's prestige, to rhapsodize about its cerebral humor and genteel good taste. No doubt about it, they said. The New Yorker is it, America...
...savage, account of the lunacy of love. Four sexually infatuated Athenians make fools of themselves and try to murder one another, while jealous Oberon casts a spell on unfaithful Titania that leads her to bed down with an ass. With characteristic perversity, Shakespeare presented this demonic fantasy as an ode to nature, one of his loveliest flights of lyric poetry...
...expect him to belt out anything as simple as "the Catholics hate the Protestants and the Protestants hate the Catholics." Between the surrealistic "song of trunks" and his ode to overdue library books, Misch seems about as far removed from the mainstream as a comedian can get--and still be funny...