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...immediate cause of this enthusiasm is Wertmuller's new film, Seven Beauties, and with ample justification. Seven Beauties stands head and shoulders above Wertmuller's previous work; it is the sort of film that proves conclusively this major director has found her stride. Every aspect of the production, from acting and characterization to her use of color and music, is not only delightful to watch in itself, but also contributes directly to the realization of a coherent vision of undeniable emotional force...
Hall has been accused of being undiplomatic, and worse, in his handling of personnel, but he takes it in stride. "Hey," he says. "I just appreciate the fact that if you try to please everybody you'll end up in a strait jacket and get carted off somewhere...
...Clock Lounge," its facade emblazoned with the graceless silhouettes of dancing women that look like the figures on the Hillbilly Shak at the fair, boasts continual striptease. Women with names like Tiffany Taylor and Sandy Beach parade along an elevated runway inside a long oval bar with the fluid stride of Miss Americas--they just tend to jut their pelvises a little farther forward. Their bodies are shivered by strobe lighting and their images are tossed between parallel mirrors, but the men rarely strain their necks to watch these dancers. Their nakedness is monotonous and distant. There are other women...
...receiver Bob Farnham, who last week set an Ivy record of 14 pass receptions in one game, was shut off by Bill Emper. Emper stayed stride for stride with the fleet-footed Farnham, exhibiting the speed he used to win the Pi Eta's Run for Daylight...
Madness on the inside, madness on the outside. In a mental hospital in Tuscany, Dr. Bonaccorsisi (Marcello Mastroianni) takes the insanity that rages all around him pretty much in his elegant stride. At times he takes advantage of it too. Pathology has a liberating effect on his libido. He flirts with patients and sleeps with three of the women he sees in the course of work...