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These cameos of desperation have been enacted over the past few years, usually on TV shows like Tonight, and have helped Albert Brooks, 28, win a reputation as the smartest, most audacious comic talent since Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. Brooks traffics not so much in jokes as wild ideas, bits of madhouse theater. His material offers no snappy punch lines to repeat next day at the office. Brooks makes comic epiphanies out of the giddy, gruesome excesses of popular culture. Like some antic Pirandello, he uses comedy itself as a major object of satire...
...Class of 1975 is fairly traditional in its composition; its makeup geographically, economically, and socially is similar to that of preceding and succeeding classes. According to admissions office officials, who keep an eye on such things, it is, like all its predecessors and successors the smartest class ever to attend Harvard...
...strategists are frank to admit that no new weapon-or defense against an adversary's new weapon-will stand unchallenged for long. Every new achievement spurs ambitious and expensive counterefforts. As a result, the life span of each new kind of weaponry becomes shorter and shorter; even the "smartest" electronic devices may be obsolescent soon after they reach the battlefield...
...Bomb Race. Just how mysterious is now told in this biography, which claims that Moe Berg was not only the smartest man who ever wore spikes but also the U.S.'s most important atomic spy during World War II. Working for OSS in Switzerland and behind enemy lines, Berg gathered information that determined Germany's progress toward building a nuclear bomb. He was also able to learn the whereabouts of labs and reactors and the identities of Hitler's leading atomic scientists. The authors raise the possibility that Berg may even have assassinated a few, and that...
...except for the brilliance of Jane Fond's performance. She's best at jabbing out with neurotic intelligence, sharp enough to project that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda is the smartest screen actress we have now. This film was the first chance she got (or took, anyway) to drown the brainless sex-kitten, and her work here almost equals the wonder of Klute's Bree Daniels...