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...author, who began collecting Yiddish aphorisms in his childhood and continued throughout a distinguished academic career, provides a fine sketch of Jewish social character in the introduction. He is nothing if not thorough...
Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketch of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays complex voluntary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Malle may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque but to the merely...
...must take issue with the statement of Barbara Childs in her letter to the editor [Dec. 11]. declaring that President Kennedy's Hyannis Port sketch could not be genuine because anchored boats never head in different directions...
They get as far as a dress rehearsal in which the pair does a hilarious variation on the "Dr. Kronkite" sketch, complete with bosomy girl (Lee Meredith), from the repertory of famed vaudevillians Smith and Dale. But Lewis begins poking and spraying, Clark suffers a heart attack, and in the final act, a mellower pair contemplates life together in an old actors' home with grudging equanimity...
...when? For the first time it was possible to sketch out a fairly firm timetable. In all likelihood, this week's talks between the President's National Security Adviser and the North Vietnamese on the 58-page draft agreement would continue for at least three or four days and perhaps even more. Following the Paris sessions, either Kissinger or his deputy, General Alexander M. Haig, would go to Saigon to review the terms with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, who is preparing for a cease-fire while continuing to maintain a public posture...