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...Wayward Twitch...
Over the three-mile course which begins at the B.U. Bridge, a bad stroke or a wayward twitch of the rudder can mean the loss of a few precious seconds or even the boat itself. More than one impressive pursuing crew has bullied its immediate leader to destruction upon the Charles' banks...
Impassioned Protest. They were the exception. The typical expressionist posture was one of impassioned protest against a world that seemed, especially to young people raised in the stiffly hierarchical coils of German society and then traumatized by the war, mechanized beyond redemption. It was the last expiring twitch of German romanticism, replete with hopes for primitivism, rural simplicity, the brotherhood of man and the death of authority, all of which, the expressionists naively thought, they could hasten to fulfillment by painting pictures. (It is only fair to recall that Hitler, who banned expressionism as "degenerate art" in 1933, shared this...
...dance marathon allegory might become tiresome except for the brilliance of Jane Fond's performance. She's best at jabbing out with neurotic intelligence, sharp enough to project that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda is the smartest screen actress we have now. This film was the first chance she got (or took, anyway) to drown the brainless sex-kitten, and her work here almost equals the wonder of Klute's Bree Daniels...
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy does not suppose that the institution of the nanny explains every last twitch and tweed of Englishness. But he does hold the reasonable view that the way a society cares for its young determines what the children, and thus the society, will be. And he believes no other group has insulated itself from its children quite like the British upper classes...