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...fierce partisanship, had done much to rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave stout Republican speeches at Republican conventions, puffed on his pipe and wrote some rather mellow reminiscences, including a volume on trout fishing...
...most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer the map to use it for inter-period ooting...
...orchestra, wound and horrify as they must. But there are other, less conventional strengths, each illuminating enough of the production to carry it past awkward moments. Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, snarling and slobbering as he narrates, inspires awe and terror even when he enters unexpectedly carrying a bright pink can of Tab; and Martha Hackett as Jenny, Macheath's favorite whore, provides the evening's most gripping moments in her two songs. --Amy E. Schwartz...
GANCE'S TREATMENT of the Victims' Balls, spontaneous explosions of frenetic relief sweeping though the prisons at the end of the Revolution, frames the orgiastic celebration in a series of viscous pink images. Exuberance at surviving the horror strips the victims of social convention. Prudence gives way to prurience. Bodies flow across the screen, men indistinguishable from women, limbs distorted in ecstasy. Yet, the pink tinting and writhing limbs make these survivors somewhat less human than the head on a pole that we believed to be still the part of a whole. This unwholesome rapture has none of the humanity...
Other cheap shots include the incorporation of a love interest simply for the sake of filming a pretty woman and a kiss or two; and a deliberately vague and utterly pointless sequence involving an American runner whose pursed lips and pink-rimmed eyeglasses blatantly suggest homosexuality, whose furtive movements imply an unidentified danger, and whose existence in the film never is justified even remotely...