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Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Man thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of invigorated...
...wert thou not a creature wanting soul...
DETROIT, September 17, 1968--Listen to the golden voice of Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell: "Don Wert singles, Kaline comes in to score, and it's all over.... The Tigers have just won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. . . .The Tigers mob Don. . .Just listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium...." That night, they danced in the streets of downtown Detroit...
Like Laurel and Hardy (to invoke just two other great names), this team specializes in a comedy of severely limited means. There is basically only one gag: the Coyote thinks up ever more elaborate schemes to fell the bird that never wert, and the attempts always backfire. But what makes old Wile E. an immortal figure is what is known in the trade as "character animation"-those marvelously rendered expressions of confidence, cunning, determination, frustration and panic as he finds either the huge rock falling on him or himself falling off the cliff, while the bird scoots off across...
...could also complain about Wert muller's routine storytelling gaffes, but perhaps the movie's most notable irritant is the endless rain. Apparently the rain, like the director's familiar holocaust images over the opening credits, is meant to remind us that we are watching the end of the world. What we see, however, is not the apocalypse but the desperation of a film maker...