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...production is not without its merits. Tom Chick provides a creative, exciting interpretation of Cassio as a befuddled yet well-intentioned swash-buckler. Nell Benjamin creates an attractive and spirited Desdemona, and John Haddon, with his rich accent and beautiful eloqution, is occasionally poetic in delivering Lodovico's lines...
...title) will be a summer smash. Of course this new adventure, second in the series that Executive Producer Lucas and Director Spielberg began with Raiders of the Lost Ark, will provide sophisticated, if largely familiar pleasures to a few hundred million moviegoers. Of course Temple of Doom, a crackerjack swash of voodoo and derring-do, will create demand for another sequel...
...lines, they have all the basic components of lower-case italic letters (and,incidentally, of architectural ornament through the ages). When youngsters master individual letters, they are taught to join them, although not all letters can be legibly connected. The capital letters are plain Roman capitals with a little swash here and there to celebrate the joy of writing...
Pirates' debut on TV and in theaters is less swash than buckle...
Spindly, pallid, shrewd, vulnerable and yet rather grand, he appears at his sweetly domineering best in My Favorite Year (1954, by the way). The role is that of an Errol Flynn-like movie star named Alan Swann whose swash has buckled to the point where the IRS is forcing him to choose between deportation and a back-tax-paying appearance on a TV comedy program. This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze...