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...song that Davies manages to ignore. He dismisses, for instance, the difficult but hardly inaccessible Finnegans Wake as a "monument to perversity." So much for 18 years of his subject's life-and for a palimpsest dream-epic of surpassing erudition and beauty. Davies' stumblebum Joyce is thus every bit as one-dimensional as the St. James who has been propped up by generations of acolytes...
Much Life. Gould is especially adept at a stumblebum wise-guy act, which stands him in good stead through most of the movie. It is a pose, however, that he finds difficult to shake. When he is called upon to look injured and badly beaten, he does not quite pull...
What finally shakes Alren up is a stumblebum encounter with a sullen nymphomaniac (Tiffany Boiling). He takes a plane to Mexico, gets a quickie divorce, and, without explanation or motivation, promptly returns for his exwife, whom he seduces in the linen closet of the country club. "There are no answers," he announces with the pride of someone who has solved the riddie of the Sphinx. "You've just got to start by starting." So saying, he takes Lisa, clad only in a towel, and charges across the well-populated lawn of the country club like Ben Braddock dashing...
...title role, Astin looks unhappy, and most of the supporting players-including Pamela Tiffin and Keenan Wynn-wince along with them. Jonathan Winters, as General Billy Joe Hallson, secondhand mattress salesman and head of the San Antonio unit of the Texas National Guard, has a couple of good stumblebum comic moments, as does Kenneth Mars playing a Texas Minuteman. But even they can do nothing about the witless dialogue and vapid plotting, which lace the comic moments in Viva Max with all the kick of day-old cerveza...
...does not like to give up old sources of entertainment without a struggle, hence this analysis of your April 11 issue. The stage is set in the Publisher's Letter . . . Proceeding through NATIONAL AFFAIRS to the piece headed "Nothing Sacred," we learn that a stumblebum Senator [Matthew Neely] has had the temerity to express his irritation with [the President's] well-publicized churchgoing habits. . . Then, why you devoted one page in JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES to the epistle of AECommissioner Murray ("Science and religion must join if the world is to survive the H-bomb") is difficult to understand...