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...which will be shown on NBC Oct. 31. "I saw hundreds of old movies for the LIFE project," says Schickel, "and was reminded that there was an innocent exuberance in the making of them that showed up in the final films. Today's movies tend to have the smell of cost accounting." But, after seeing an hour and a half of the '76 Kong, Schickel reports: "The people who made it weren't counting pennies and were clearly having fun. Their enthusiasm shines through...
...cadres maintained its own power by demanding unquestioned loyalty. "We cannot forget," the document said, "the grotesque dance of loyalty, the uninterrupted rituals of loyalty-the morning prayers, the evening confessionals, the meetings, the assemblies ... all of it lacquered over with a thick religious sauce giving off a strong smell...
...Smell Dem Magnolias...
...matter how far the Old South recedes into shadow and dust, the money seekers will always pull back the Faulknerian mansions and moss to show the glorious past. Y'all smell dem magnolias, honey? Edgar H. de Lesseps Arlington...
...images in Autumn form brilliant thematic patterns. In the first chapter we see unforgettably "dead craters of harsh moon ash on the endless plain where the sea had been," we hear "a disaster of hoofs and animal sighs from behind the fortified walls," we smell "the lunar dust-covered rosebuds under which the lepers had slept." Such descriptions return to haunt us, as they do the patriarch; they are fragments of a real or created past, the whole of which we do not know and he has forgotten...