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...juxtapositions make a viewer catch his breath. After Nina Bernstein's lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well, I didn't want to be just a housewife--comes like a slap in the face. Each speech and song brings a new twist--a corporate executive is numbered among the hunted unhappy, a cocktail waitress keeps herself euphoric through a curiously empty pride...
...between Timely Writer and the Triple Crown' stood the unhappy timing of a bizarre intestinal twist which left the colt recuperating from emergency surgery while the spring's Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes passed him by. The experts gave the horse only even odds to survive the operation, but by August he had put in a victorious appearance at Saratoga. This served notice that the son of Staff Writer had regained his earlier form, and going into the Jerome Handicap in early September he looked like the Boston horse...
Diva is filled with moments like this, incidents that deliberately give an edge to what might otherwise seem like over-serious cinematic cliches. Although the film's near-perfection would excuse almost any minor directorial excess, it is nevertheless wonderful when an unexpected twist--for instance that a sadistic punk in aviator glasses, army boots and an earplug has in fact been listening to accordion music, of all things--startles the audience out of its complacency. One of the nicest things about Diva is its ability to generate goose-pimpling suspense while laughing, just a little, at the classical suspense...
...script occasionally ladles warm chicken soup over situations where a spritz in the face would be more appropriate. There are times when Actor Richard Benjamin, making his debut as a feature-film director, is too content with a scene's obvious values to find a handle to twist the comedy tighter...
...Business School whiz kid who heads the Bendix Corp., is facing a showdown with Harry Gray, 62, the seasoned hustler who began his career selling Dodge trucks for a Chicago dealership and went on to become a renowned conglomerate builder as chairman of United Technologies Corp. In the newest twist in a complex takeover struggle, United Technologies announced last week that it was joining forces with Martin Marietta Corp. in an unprecedented double-team effort to acquire Bendix and divide its assets between them...