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...medium, since she must be able to speak with the voices of three women, a child, and a man. Lillian Aylward is in every way equal to her assignment, and achieves the necessary effects by altering her speech rhythms. The six supporting players, particularly Michael Linenthal as a pompous doctor and Liam Clancy as a skeptical Oxford student, also turn in fine performances...
...Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less than a lifetime ago, can now do even more spectacular things than the rich and pompous West-thanks to Communism." Nothing could have struck more dramatically at the U.S.'s proud claim of technological and productive superiority for a free economic society. "I always thought America and Russia were equal in strength." mused one Indonesian. "Now it seems that the Russians are stronger...
...enormous virtue that too few comic films share: it takes itself lightly, playing with exaggeration and outrageousness, purposely stretching our ideas of reality and probability. It creates a mood within which we can laugh easily at a man whose commendable but legally dubious hobby is building bombs to explode pompous bores. Instead of being told, "This is reality," (which might be mildly grim, we are in effect told, "This is a caricature of reality...
Spread Thin. A few who have known him for years think that Murrow has grown vain and pompous-an impression that his style also induces in some of his audience. Vanity is an occupational hazard that a performer has to watch as a woman watches her weight. Living in a swirl of hero worship, Murrow is obliged to recall the Murrow-Ain't-God Club. He smokes too much (three packs of Camels a day), is still gnawed by nerves before every broadcast; even in the air-conditioned studio, doing his radio show, he drips sweat and jiggles...
Donald Harron's bow-legged Verges and all the men of the watch are properly mangy. But Larry Gates as the pompous and malapropistic Dogberry is disappointing to one who remembers Edward Finnegan's magnificent portrayal here at the Brattle Theatre. It is a far richer part than Gates makes...