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Rivals in Pleasure. That Gilles should remind Chastel of Bottom is no surprise, for both play essentially the same comic role. In the commedia dell' arte farces so popular in Watteau's day, Gilles, or Pierrot, was the simple-wilted country bumpkin, often a servant who pointed out the follies of his master and for his audacity got his ears boxed. But Watteau's dignified, wistful figure is aimed not at burlesque. In all probability it was intended as a portrait of a patron or friend...
...watch the film just for itself, without any greater meaning, and that is easy to do. The characters in the movie are all the kind of people you would never think twice about to understand. None will even remotely remind you of Julie Christie; and there are at least a half a dozen characters who absorb the role that John Wayne plays on the American screen...
...phallic and fecal images to express their feelings about the mayor. William Copley sent in a 1965 painting in which a woman exposes her plump backside. Oldenburg did a series of 48 indefinably nasty plaster versions of Chicago's distinctive red fireplugs, which for diverse reasons remind him of the plug-ugly Chicago cops. He also made a drawing of a "proposed colossal monument" for Chicago showing
Hubert Humphrey, of course, has passed up no opportunity to razz Agnew about any of his gaffes and to remind voters of how close he would be to the presidency in the event of a G.O.P. victory. "Think," Humphrey demanded of audiences last week. "President Agnew and President LeMay...
...while producer Harold Prince's knack for bringing together the right artists to execute his Zorba tells much of his showmanship, it is his own artists as director that contributes most to his triumph. After a long dry spell since the heyday of Jerome Robbins, Prince has come to remind us what the serious musical is all about...