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Another French movie, THE CLOCKMAKER, is more sober but similarly slight. Philippe Noiret, a worthy actor with the wistful, befuddled expression of an alpine rescue dog, appears as a widowed father whose son has collaborated in the killing of a factory foreman. The son is on the run with his partner in crime, who is also his girl friend. These two are not even glimpsed until late in the film, where they reveal themselves to be casual about the killing, past the point of indifference. Pop is not a figure of considerable passion either, and The Clockmaker concerns the tentative...
...sober artistry marks The Doctor's Wife as vintage Brian Moore. Sheila Redden may not be as hauntingly memorable as the heroine of Moore's first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1956), but she is the most alluringly complex adulteress to come along in print in some time...
Print journalists used to pride themselves on reporting the sober but important convention decisions that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...
...summer as an amateur gold miner in the High Sierras of Northern California produced more muscles, more sober thoughts and a net profit of 80?. The next stop on his pilgrimage, college, was less of an ordeal. Still, despite his being a leading campus socialist at the University of Minnesota-a protester against the ROTC, a spark of the Jacobin Club and a charter member of the "first American student movement"-Sevareid could write a dozen years later: "I remember only struggle . . . emotional exhaustion...
...common knowledge that Wayne had his own bout with cancer - his testament that "I licked the Big C with the love of God and a lot of guts" is as well known as any line from his movies - and The Shootist trades on this fact. Besides, all the sober, rueful honor laid on here is premature. Let us hope it stays that way for a long time...