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Another marked result of the progression of Wilder's nastiness from Fortune is the clear phase-out of love and romance as important elements in the director's world view. In the latter, most recent picture, Wilder once and for all stops paying his rather vulgar homage to Ernst Lubitsch's lyricism and reduces love to a mere pawn in the chess game of human greed. Those who were fooled into thinking Wilder had some subconscious joie de vivre underneath his cynicism by his earlier pictures can't possibly believe that after The Fortune Cookie , where he shows...
...LOEB'S Morning Noon, and Night is not so much vulgar as it is confused, not so much confused as it is funny, not so much funny as it is painful. And painful precisely because its triptych view of America is so very...
...hair, smoked in public, wore pants." Brisson approached Lerner in 1960, but they did not start work together on Coco until 1965. By that time. Chanel had seen Lerner's My Fair Lady and loved it. "I was convinced that Lerner was incapable of doing anything vulgar," she said last week in Paris. "These people know what they're doing." Still, she wonders what they find so interesting in an 86-year-old couturière. "My life is rather boring. I would...
...rarely votes," he explained. "We operate on the Harvard Gentleman system which finds voting rather vulgar. We only act if there is a consensus- which one or two members of considerable seniority often prevent. Having students on the committee would change all that. The majority of thinking Senior Common Room members want change: I've found the lack of students a positive embarrassment...
...Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu, Maoist cultural cadres are vociferously denouncing "rock-'n'-roll crazy dances and vulgar and revolting actions in some so-called revolutionary dances...