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...that it is a sign of fecundity. There apparently will be a long and agonizing interregnum between the act of separation and the new art which must inevitably follow. Hence the avant-garde deserves neither cultist celebration nor complacent denunciation. Someone in the future may conclude that it was purest fantasy, wantonness disguised as on act of faith. It may turn out to be only senescent romanticism. But we cannot envision that future. For the moment we might breathe and touch the things of our poor, sweaty, nervous present and consider that even a living illusion can be more valuable...
Died. Thelma Ritter, 63, Brooklyn-born character actress; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. Her voice was purest Greenpoint gravel and her visage was forever screwed into the city dweller's skeptical query: "Who ya' tryin' to kid, buster?" She began her career, as she once put it, on the road as "an obnoxious child actress-the poor man's Cornelia. Otis Skinner." She married in 1927 and settled into domesticity, but in 1946 resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus...
...here he is dishonest with himself because the first half-hour shows (as did Contempt and Pierrot le Fou) that the man can cut a narrative like nobody's business when he puts his mind to it. Mireille Darc's much-discussed monologue is, though a single shot, the purest kind of narrative cinema (combined with Coutard's carressing camera movement and Antoine Duhamel's brilliant score)--as is the long track along stalled traffic ending with corpses on the road. These scenes will become classics, and I don't see any reason why we shouldn...
...line of purest poetry...
Buried in the middle of transition, a book-sized Paris magazine, is a piece of nonsense called Studies in Conversation that displays Gertrude Stein at her purest. One typical passage...