Word: timelessness
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...visceral French political sport of right-baits-left. With more intellectual acuity than passion Jean Anouilh goes back to Robespierre to perform a masterly autopsy on the revolutionary mentality. As Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands as a sexy pussycat who claws and Alan Alda as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...Director Jack Clayton (Room At The Top) show proper scorn for the easy tricks of melodrama. Their unsentimental aim is to take a marriage apart and nail up the bleeding pieces for honest scrutiny. Often as not, they succeed, finding lethal words and crisp images to express the timeless battle that Author Mortimer describes as "men and women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion...
...into the rawness of Logan Airport Thursday night, his long black hair carefully molded around his head, the black velvet collar of his black topcoat soft in the harsh lights. And as he orated to Massachusetts' industrialists, his language at once filled with references to deficit financing and the timeless rhetoric of a politician from the Northwest Territory, he seemed fully capable of standing in a crowded, dimly lit Senate chamber and delivering the reply to Hayne (no doubt as H. Horatio Humphrey...
...songs are timeless Porter but, even so, some of them are as datable as coins. I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight, for example, was first sung in 1940's Panama Hattie, by Ethel Merman...
...ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is perfect as a scraggly 19th century revolutionary in this timeless, beautifully photographed, warmly human drama about workers who strike against sweatshop living in a Turin textile mill...