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Toothless Drift. Such quaint practices were doomed in 1968, when the Times offered a sizable block of shares to the public. Investors were pleased by record profits in 1969, but the costly 1970 labor settlement and declining earnings provoked much criticism of the company's management. Sulzberger candidly admits that "we were drifting, but we really had not, as a management team, put any teeth into doing anything about...
...foreigners may be odd, but they are dignified; the screen is full of the charitable assumption that, despite their quaint and bristly appearance, Occidentals are human...
AMPHIGOREY by Edward Gorey. Unpaged. Putnam. $12.95. Corey's grueling tales dwell lightly on melancholia and misfortune; the illustrations are precise, deadpan and tenebrific. Together they create a quaint, surreal world where horror and humor blandly lurk on every page. Fifteen of Gorey's works are collected here, including "The Curious Sofa" (which may be the ultimate sexual instrument). Only for those who think they would like to smile at an unfurling nightmare...
Saint Exupery tells the story of a little man who lives all alone on a distant asteroid, of the journey that he takes from his asteroid to the Sahara Desert, and of the adventures he has there and elsewhere on the earth. His book is laced with quaint illustrations (by Saint Exupery himself) of a coa constrictor swallowing an elephant, baobab trees devouring a planet, and ant hill sized volcanoes...
...THIS POINT, the film threatens to descend into a quaint metaphysical consideration of the relations between art and life, imagination and reality, and so on. But when Rosemonde herself (Bulle Ogier) enters the scene, the drift of the story changes completely. She turns out to be an absolutely intriguing girl with whom Pierre, after his first interview, finds clinical detachment quite impossible. The two soon begin an affair, and Paul--who had determined not to set eyes on Rosemonde in order to preserve the integrity of his imaginary creation--accidentally meets her at Pierre's home and immediately finds further...