Word: stingings
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...right dark glow as the Latin heroine; Richard Beymer is winsome as the hero, and as a tan teen Tybalt and a nubile Nurse of anything but the usual Shakespearance, George Chakiris and Rita Moreno are strikingly slummy. On-screen as onstage, Stephen Sondheim's lyrics sting like a tongueful of tamales. Leonard Bernstein's music, as usual spinelessly eclectic, fails (as the whole film fails) to merge the moods of sweetness and blight; but it is often swell strutty stuff...
...less adroit, carefully tuning his remarks to his audience. He quickly identified himself with the world's underdeveloped nations ("No backward country is fully independent"); he showed proper concern about Castro's Cuba by calling for "representative democracy in the entire American continent," then softened the sting by again insisting on absolute nonintervention.* As for the cold war, said Frondizi, "when we proclaim the fact that we are members of the Western and Christian world, we are not doing so in order to create antagonistic blocs or pit one group of nations against another...
...other young directors with aimlessness may be a symptom for sociologists to analyze rather than reviewers. It seems clear, though, that Michelle Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the aimless protagonist of Breatheless, is intriguing because audiences can simultaneously identify him and dismiss him as freak. The film contains little sting or criticism because Godard's semi-comic direction fosters an atmosphere of unreality, almost one of parody. Breathless is thus saved from the pseudo-philosophic qualities that the advertisers and critics have burdened it with. Godard need not and does not comment on Michelle's way of life, and his very...
...heels over head by a Seeing-Eye dog (the CIA) hot on the trail of a skunk clearly meant to be Cuba. "Once Kennedy was President," says Mauldin, "I didn't even give him the usual 100 days of grace. I stung him hard. And I'll sting him again." Such deep engagement in battle, says Cartoonist Paul Flora of Hamburg's weekly Die Zeit, "is Mauldin's strength. He may outlast...
...Navy's Underwater Demolition Team School at Little Creek, Va., he slipped into the ice-blue waters off Key West, Fla., for an enjoyable afternoon of shark shooting. A couple of fathoms below the surface, he nonchalantly stuffed chunks of a freshly killed, 7-ft. sting ray into a meat grinder, let the bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down...