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...find two-thirds of the seats empty; a transcendent tedium often reigns. As half a dozen members attend to the debate at hand, others read, amble, joke or even doze. It is not beyond the frontiers of possibility that a member might show up drunk, or threaten to punch another member. Into such an atmosphere, TV cameras would arrive like censorious missionaries landing on a pagan island...
...such movies go, Crossed Swords is somewhat above the norm. Adapted from Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, it recounts a highly satisfying story in an amiable fashion. Though Screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser has replaced many of the novel's jokes with vaguely risqué punch lines of his own, he has preserved the book's theme. By the time Prince Edward and London Slum Boy Tom Canty reclaim their rightful identities at the movie's end, the audience has been stirred by Twain's passionate devotion to democratic ideals...
...blandness that is most offensive here--the lack of subtlety or nuance. This Sleuth whizzes by without ever being felt, and although it cannot help but amuse, it does not punch. When a good comedy is not played right, a short pause occurs between the delivery of the line and the laughter from the audience--a pause where the audience reviews the words, and then realizes that they add up to something funny. But when the delivery is sharp, you feel yourself beginning to laugh even before the line is finished. That never happens in the Leverett production. Although director...
...first-half stats proved none too good for the boys from Cambridge, as their scoring punch was severely missed from both Glenn Fine and Bob Hooft who registered about as much offense as an old lady from Dubuque, teaming up for a mere two-point total in the stanza...
...Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," a tongue-in-cheek hymn to pre-professionalism ("Don't let 'em play guitars and drive them old trucks/Let 'em grow up to be lawyers and doctors and such"), you know this album is going to have some punch and humor. The crazy, whining guitars on "Mamas" come back for an encore in "I Can Get Off On You," perhaps a slight stab at Waylon's Nashville coke bust last fall, and a general paean to the powers of love...