Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atop the wreckage stood grinning, pop-eyed Moise Tshombe of separatist Katanga province. Fortnight earlier, Tshombe had talked his way out of his confinement in a Leopoldville villa with solemn pledges to merge Katanga with the rest of the Congo; as Moise left for home, he embraced his old enemies, showered them with compliments. But once he was back in the safety of Katanga, crafty Tshombe changed his tune. The agreement signed in Leopoldville was forced from him under duress, he sneered. Last week Tshombe's regime declared that Katanga would not give up its own separate currency...
...music is full of humor: perhaps a razzmatazz counterpoint to a rather solemn theme or quotes from other tunes slipped in slyly. A favorite Jackson trick is to imitate-without breaking stride-the style of such pianists as Erroll Garner, George Shearing or Oscar Peterson. "I can talk to Pete Rugolo in his métier," says he, "or to Count Basie in his or to Lenny Bernstein. Maybe not to Lawrence Whelp...
Trouble was, the Moscow meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union, a collection of solemn sports buffs who run U.S. amateur athletics with all the imagination of benighted medieval seigneurs. Riding herd over 16 sports from track and field to baton twirling, these stern defenders of amateur purity bristle when outsiders presume to promote so much as a friendly basketball game,* have often been described as "neither amateur, nor athletic, nor a union...
...charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as fashionable as sinning after lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they fancy is abandon: they dig le jazz, say "so longue" to each other, and crack up cars. All that need be said of Cheaters is that toward...
...solemn may try to see political satire in this jape. It is true that one of a pack of thieves says, "At least we're not nationalized yet," and an official-looking sign in a workingwomen's boardinghouse reads, "Chastity is the Best Policy! Don't See Your Husband." But the only real politics in this film is lunatic anarchy. Everyone mugs like mad, and if a sight gag falls flat, there is another along in ten seconds. It all serves as a reminder that the early-Hollywood, dead-run comedy used to be awfully funny...