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...play suffers from what Evelyn Waugh termed "fatal charm"; the skillfully textured hodgepodge of images which make up Out Out are particularly disappointing in the end because, to start with, they're so appealing--what advertising execs call "sexy". The cast, the audience, the designers too clearly want this work to be something special, but their creation works only in patches...
...arrogance, psychological self-absorption, sexual confusion and, above all, a ferocious literacy: if Privileged is to be believed, student life at Oxford appears to be as immutable in its ways as the university's famously dreaming spires are in theirs. It would seem from this movie that Evelyn Waugh and all the other novelists who made the world aware of what it was like to be young, gifted and absolutely tops in an elitist society could safely drop in for tea at Oriel or Balliol or any of their formative haunts and feel utterly at home. And this despite...
...Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
This new language often displays a youthfully exuberant sense of the absurd. Thus "moby," meaning large, is said to derive from Melville's Moby Dick, though some say from Moby Pickle. And "bogus," which used to be squealed by Evelyn Waugh debutantes, has now flowered into bogosity, and even into autobogophobia, a fear of becoming bogotified...
Brideshead Revisited (PBS). Faithful, sometimes to a fault, to Evelyn Waugh's most popular novel, this visually ravishing series offered a lovely elegy to a time that never was. Eleven episodes that warmed an Anglophile's winter...