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...from D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ), are perfectly conceived, as are Elizabeth Tullis's costumes and Sara Linnie Slocum's lighting. Not to mention Charles Langmuir's assured performance of the hero (an anti-war American who goes off to fight the "war to end all wars") and that swell band gliding through the original Weill orchestrations...
...each other, their desperate quiet energy passing unhindered through the colored plastic. Emotions are unhesitatingly suppressed, language conceals obscure truths. Daria outside, unable to cry over Mark's death, plunges her face into a stream of water, drawing vacarious tears from the man-made waterfall. Antonioni, grooving, is a swell iconographer. The dramatic conception is finally on a level with the visual sophistication, and the last reels stand as an abstract montage of breakdown and non-communication...
...daughter meant that either I led the glamorous, spoiled life of a movie star's child or that I was a poor little waif, a vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with the same hired clown." It was on the set watching Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse dancing, being spoiled by Robert Mitchum...
...middle-aged Negro woman. She predicted cheerfully that dissolving her emotional problems "layer by layer" would probably take a lifetime. From a reformed alcoholic, the conventioneers drew vicarious inspiration. "I was an old man at 16," he said, "and now I feel like a kid. It's sure swell to see a whole bunch of kooks like us get together. It's a miracle...
...Ruth Rootberg and William Parent of Tufts. They do not bother to swallow. They wad up giant balls of pancakes and stuff it into their mouths. Their cheeks, like a chipmunk's swell bigger and bigger...