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Nicholson has a genius for creating pungently unlikable characters, but not cartoons. He is best playing the kind of handsome, slightly cheap con-man whose tentativeness at the wrong time shows that he's secretly more than a pushover--a brazenly healthy specimen with a weak-willed, soft-hearted core, a man whose oblique playfulness (meant to hide everything) pleads desperately for help and affection but who is vacillating, mean and a bit of an ass. Here he plays a sly, greasy Dennis-the-Menace type with the manipulative whine and offended pout of a three year old. He waddles...
...which was first produced in 1926, is not perhaps the Hope Diamond of the twenties musical--not exactly, the specimen one would choose if one were putting together a museum exhibit on the subject. But it does have its transcendent moments, and the time in between is at last, steadily enjoyable. The Loeb's production has been mounted faithfully in the true twenties style with a vaguely art, does set lavish costumes and lost of energetic dance numbers. Director Josh Rubins has carried this historical faithfulness over in the acting style, too: the broad, farcical characterizations second forced at, first...
...less adventurous swap barbs by mail, using lists and catalogues published by barbed-wire associations. Hollis Gordon, a retired welder from Independence, Mo., wrote to government leaders in foreign countries. His collection includes strips from Korea, Nationalist China and a specimen used in France during World...
...TAKE A LOOK at the picture of this subject," Flanagan told the jury in his closing arguments. "Is this just a specimen? Are you speaking about a blob, a big glob of mucus?" The crux of his summation was that the fetus Edelin killed had been an independent human begin with "the right to live in society" under the protection of its law. Flanagan told the jurors that the only difference between the fetus and "normal human beings" were it weight and its cause of death...
...author of one witty novel (The Rock Pool) and a rather indescribable, rather marvelous volume of quotations, moody autobiography and black-Irish philosophy he called The Unquiet Grave. But by temperament and profession he was above all that obsolescent specimen, The Bookman. The bulk of his writing, like this last collection, was in the form of reviews. Posed against a floor-to-ceiling bookcase with his snub-nose schoolboy's impertinent face, he seemed as much in his natural habitat as a leprechaun in front...