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...might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility (in order to justify Peckinpah she evokes Brecht, for God's sake.) Or that Brackman had his adolescence in the late '50's, and never has recovered. After reading both of them, you'll have spent some pleasant moments with fine company. But the harsher might wonder what brought them to this business in the first place...
...send off his audience furtively checking the roof-tops. The film's proportions are so mythic, one expects to shake off the horror. Not so, For three nights running one particularly gruesome close-up has starred in this reviewer's nightmares. Dirty Harry is compelling, though not exactly pleasant, entertainment that rides high on the new wave of violence films. Hopefully Siegel and his film-making colleagues will ebb back to their other obsession. Sex is so much better for one's sleep...
...string harmonics in accompaniment. No contrast could have been stronger than that of the soprano's aria to the basso's. All three singers sounded best in their first trio: the combined volumes and timbres fitted perfectly with the orchestra. The concert had opened with Glinka's Kamarinskaya, a pleasant diversion which showed off the Orchestra's abilities admirably. The central section of the piece sounds very much like Beethoven symphony extracts, but the similarity ends in a series of pizzicato passages. These were done in perfect synchronization and with great resonance...
...black bell-bottoms and sweater, his greying hair pulled back in a ponytail, Alexandro Jodorowsky? The man, they say, that made that film, El Topo, that's playing down the street at the Charles Cinema? The one with all the blood? Except that he seems to be so pleasant...
Much of the success of the Jeeves novels is due to Bertie's first person narration. Wodehouse shows us Jeeves through the eyes of this pleasant, well-meaning, but definitely addle-brained young man-about-town, and the vision is little short of awe-inspiring. Bertie runs out of words in describing the depth of Jeeves' intellect, the brains that have rescued him from so many desperate romantic entanglements; he can only ascribe Jeeves' wisdom to the quantities of fish he consumes. From Bertie's vantage point, Jeeves is definitely superhuman, and if we were to ask why he should...