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...flop miserably. Sometimes the artists in this show flop miserably--but usually because they've fallen prey to the modern student syndrome of not experimenting, or staying in a rut. Those who move beyond the strict confines of a teacher's assignment, if nothing else, escape the mortal sin of being boring. When you're exhibiting in a building that has been likened to two grand pianos fucking, that's something to avoid at all costs...
...directions of the firemen, you will get out alive. Just what I was told in third grade. A few innocent people get killed, for the sake of pathos, but basically, if you obey orders you'll be saved. Unless, of course, you're a Sinner. In this movie sin means, say, staying after work to have sex with your secretary. The connection between adultery and hellfire has never been more firmly drawn in a modern setting. Meanwhile, upstairs in the penthouse, we learn a Conradian lesson--that if men in a dangerous situation act together, under the obvious leadership...
BELLA ABZUG, unmarried pregnant girls, Radcliffe women in Harvard classrooms, successful women and, potentially women who don't use feminine hygiene spray deodorants, all have one thing in particular in common. They all commit what Patricia Meyer Spacks identifies as the "ultimate feminine sin" of conspicuousness. They fail to remain in the background as women are supposed to do, with veils concealing their faces and faces concealing their thoughts...
Nowhere is the sin of conspicuousness committed more outrageously than among women writers. In the fictive worlds they create and in the act of their own writing, they put women in the foreground--acts of deviance, therefore conspicuous, and acts of defiance, therefore political. Spacks's excellent book, The Female Imagination--by far the most comprehensive treatment of women writers to date--examines this highly suspect group of women, In so doing, it unavoidably concerns itself with power because that is what the female imagination ponders: how to combat the external powers constraining...
...among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script was by S.J. Pereiman and it doesn't really matter who directed since it is hardly a film anyway Pereiman apparently won't talk about his Mark experiences anymore--he's quite right...