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...with the shifty paranoia of a male Jane Curtin, Emerson moves, under his clerical robes and Rasputin beard, with a pneumatic grace and, except for a deficient malevolent laugh, his voice is the silky articulator of a deft cartoon of nastiness. When, after Emerson and Levi's "Living in Sin" number Mr. First Nighter lets loose his battle cry ("Ex-cellent!), there is no dissent here or anywhere...
...CROP OF biographies appearing in bookstores recently has been grim, glutted with post-Watergate tales of sin, the Fall, and redemption by the likes of Haldeman, Colson, Dean, Magruder and, eventually Nixon. So Tony Hiss '63 does us all a service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable and engaging biography (if it can be classified as such) of his father, Alger Hiss. While the Nixon gang and assorted witnesses and prosecutors continue to churn out bestsellers, this slim volume may be lost in the flood tide of confessions, which is a shame, because Hiss brings a great deal...
...want you to spend an adequate amount of time with your husbands/wives & children," he wrote in a staff memo, "and also to involve them as much as possible in our White House life." Smiling broadly, Carter mockingly scolded a group of employees: "Those of you who are living in sin, I hope you will get married. Those of you who have left your spouses, come back home. Those of you who don't know your children's names, get to know them...
...Obscenity is like the concept of sin-it defies definition," he says. "If we start restricting adult reading habits by what's fit for children, we could be left with only Little Red Riding-Hood. "Says William Shawn, editor of the chaste New Yorker: "This is a very serious threat. In this instance it has to do with taste, but ultimately it has to do with what our attitudes are. In a free society nobody should be the judge...
...manages to charm so many women into the bedroom remains a mystery. Nor, once he gets them there, is it easy to see how they can derive much fun from the groaning calisthenics he puts them through. This is a film that earns its R rating not by making sin enticing but by making it repellent. In earlier Fellini works like 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits, there was a fruitful tension between private fantasy and social reality. More recently, as in Fellini Satyricon, the fantasy has tended to overrun the reality. Here Casanova does not move against...