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They were neither an admirable nor likable pair, but the diary is far from an odious document. If it does not redeem them, it does manage to enhance them, principally because of their love for each other. In his chronic deep depressions Wagner felt that only Cosima's existence kept him from suicide. On their son's first birthday she writes, "At 4:30 I am awakened by sweet sounds, R. at the piano proclaiming to me the hour of birth." He would sing to her as she worked, a cantilena from / Puritani, a melody of Beethoven...
...film, a broken man who retains an appreciation for the spontaneous quip and the caresses of a pet cat. He most eloquently conveys Max's impotent despair when he discovers the danging carcass of his feline hanging from the cord of a light bulb in the prison, an odious testimony to the malice of the prison guard Rifki (Paolo Bonacelli...
About the best thing to be said for the film is that Bombeck does not play the autobiographical heroine herself. That odious chore has fallen instead to Carol Burnett, an actress who is often capable of extracting humor from even the most puerile material. This is one of her rare failures. Bombeck's stale jokes about crabgrass and Tupperware parties defy levitation; the cutesie plot is predictable to anyone who has ever encountered any incarnation of Please Don 't Eat the Daisies. Unfortunately, Burnett doesn't get any help from Director Robert Day. His idea of high...
...Edwardian England, "there was no escape for a woman except to marry the least odious man the family proposed," Anita Leslie, author of "Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill," told an audience of 80 last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...
THERE ARE any number of reasons for the inertia that has seized America. There is, of course, the old "Nixon and Vietnam and inflation sapped the vitality of the '60s" line--but comparisons of the '70s to the '60s are hackneyed and generally odious. The '60s, if nothing else, were a dynamic, essential turning point, of which the '70s are the antithesis. Then there is the "lobotomization of America" argument, which points to television and pre-professionalism and People Magazine as the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity and rampant escapism. Armchair (and journalistic) philosophers can rant forever, yet still achieve...