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...Middle East, and it is an ominous one. Said one Israeli last week: "We are knocking out every Egyptian gun we can find, probably hundreds in recent months. But no sooner do we destroy them than two days later the Russians replace them. It's like a science-fiction plot???a war against an endless army of ants...
Also much more sex and nudity. But in the new films, sex is rarely prurient. If it is sometimes startlingly explicit, it is nevertheless unself-conscious and often functional to the plot???or what plot there is. It is also unstereotyped. People make love on the couch (Georgy Girl), in cars (Alfie), and in a susurrous sea of blue backdrop paper (Blow-Up). And the girl hardly ever waits any more to be asked; she communicates sex like a banner headline...
...Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot???international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...
...Francine Larrimore, last seen in Chicago, easily carries Rachel Crothers' new play on her frequently-shrugged shoulders. The plot???a divorced couple's reunion brought about by his attractions for another girl?contains no weighty situations. The Crothers dialog is blithe if not brilliant...
...collection of 21 short stories, six completed, the other 15 left unfinished at the death of their author. The stories are all brief?five, six, eight pages; the longest one, The Doves'Nest (unfinished) runs as many as 15. They have no trimly tailored tightness of plot???cannon cracker climaxes?in fact it is doubtful whether any of our best paying and most financially successful American magazines would consider them worth the buying. And yet they add, if anything, to a reputation that already belongs among the permanent things of English literature?a reputation sustained entirely by exactly such work...
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