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Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream; High lows pass as patent leathers; Jackdaws strut in peacock feathers...
...begin to work for their costumes. Washerwomen take on twice their normal work load, and even thieves steal more. In the end, everybody works double." The rich too pay for their fun. Brazilian Couturier Evandro Castro Lima is working on ten dazzling fantasias for society women. He himself will strut this year as Harun al-Rashid, in a besequined and bejeweled costume that weighs 105 lbs. "We flee the present," he explains. "We want to feel the vibrations of great kings and queens." To get the right vibrations, his customers pay up to $2,500 for a fantasia. This year...
...overemphasized polemic at the cost of the cast. In Weekend, for example, windy politics fray some of the film's visionary power. But in Pierrot Le Fou Godard shows that he can coax fine actors into superlative performances. Belmondo earns his lunatic (fou) sobriquet; his quirky bantam strut and broken-nosed banter are only a gasp away from Breathless. Karina's sensuality gives her ultimate villainy the quality of revelation...
...results were such creations as Gerald McBoing Doing and Mr. Magoo. Candidly stylized, outrageously unrealistic, they made a kind of claim to be art. Edelmann and Submarine obviously belong to this tradition rather than Disney's. He chooses to seize attitudes rather than to simulate motion. His characters strut, jerk and visually stutter across landscapes that never were. The result is unreal and enormously evocative...
...when it first opened in Manhattan. And while The Misanthrope turns out well indeed, much of the credit belongs to Moliere's writing and Poet Richard Wilbur's lithe translation into conversational rhymed couplets-plus the wigs and swords and period couture that actors love to strut and fret with...