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...Godfather. Typical love story, with an interesting twist: boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl is wiped out, Savoy...
...SOMEONE who used to be Dean Acheson's roommate, Cole Porter has come a long way. In the Grand tradition of hula hoops, the Twist, and Batman, he has become a raging American fad, and, although the Porter fad will probably wear out its welcome with the great American populace as quickly as its predecessors, we may as well drink the wine while we have it, Nunc est bibendum...
...second recall may allay motorists' fears, but it hardly answers the question of how the industry manages to produce cars with such defects as engines that twist loose and wheel-axle assemblies that come off. Automakers' explanations are anything but reassuring. They maintain that such flaws result not from sloppy workmanship or careless quality control but bad engineering decisions. In effect, the faults are designed into the cars-unintentionally to be sure -by engineers making the wrong compromises between safety, cost and speed considerations. In the current case, Ford redesigned its 1972 Torinos and Montegos, making them heavier...
Time has eroded the social basis of Shaw's comedies. He loved to taunt imperial power, but it is pretty lame satire to twist a lion's tail when there is no longer a lion attached. He loved to tease the middle class, but in a welfare state, the middle class has lost both the hopes of fortune and the fears of penury upon which Shaw played. He loved to poke fun at lower-class blighters who dropped their H's, and today-irony of ironies-the sons of those blighters, and not he or his disciples...
...influence, allusion and satire run infinitely wider--from D.W. Griffith to Bugs Bunny. Eisenstein to Erich Segal to Bogart. It is a movie made out of movies, and right from the opening credits presented as pages in a storybook. Bogdanovich wrings every cliche to its uttermost. Every gag, every twist of plot, has been aged in a thousand earlier uses...