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...quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen on hard times. As the key is wound and the book begins to tick, Gonçalo meets António. Then he sees his wife, then Alexandra. The programmed gears carry Alexandra to António and back to Gonçalo. The wife meets the son, and so forth. As each permutation comes up and repeats, Gonçalo is even able...
...repaid their trust by miscasting them in solid-citizen roles. Assigned by Hearst to an anti-rackets crusade in 1933, Runyon led off with the charge that the Administration of President Harding was "the most brazen display of racketeering in our times." His story went on to tick off other notable racketeers-"after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer." Biographer Hoyt finds it strange that Runyon's dark side went so unrecognized, since Runyon himself gave it such a lifelong promenade. "By saying something with...
...film begins, a world-famous cellist lies dead, mourned in turn by his critic-biographer, six black-veiled mistresses and his wife. Flashbacks detail the end of the great man's life in a series of slapstick sketches played against the ricky-tick accompaniment of Yes! We Have No Bananas. In the sprawling Villa Tremolo, where he keeps his women (among them such Bergman favorites as Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson), Maestro Felix is heard but seldom seen. The women are the issue, for the artist's playthings, like his public, adore him, scorn him, help...
...that's all there is to it: an affair pretty much like any other affair. But in his first feature film Director Desmond Davis, a top-tick cameraman who shot Tom Jones and A Taste of Honey for Tony Richardson, has transformed a rather banal business into skillful cinema of sensibility, a warm and witty examination of a young girl changing painfully from a big child into a little woman...
...obligingly boomed home first in the 100, then in the 200, finally ran a leg on a 1,600-meter relay team that won by 70 yds. Milers Tom O'Hara and Dyrol Burleson had to scratch from the 1,500-meter run; so Jim Grelle got to tick off that one. Half a dozen others were walking wounded: California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee forgot an injured pancreas (courtesy of a student's accidental judo chop) long enough to breeze through the 400 meter; World Discus Champ Al Oerter strapped on a brace to protect a pinched neck nerve...