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Julie Harris has always had a child's gift for being mischievously amusing and touchingly wistful at the same time, and she displays it again here. Since he is smarmy, rubber-legged, and given to fixed, fatuous grins, Lou Antonio is a more difficult taste to acquire. With comedies...
In the latest of those churlish, wistful prefaces that he has taken to writing, John O'Hara seems to be saying that he is going to quit doing short stories until he is properly thanked for his novels.
That gentle and thoughtful critic of schools, James B. Conant, this week illuminates another problem that the U.S. didn't quite realize it had. In a new book, he says that the way the country shapes educational policy-on teaching reforms in grade schools, for example, or standards for...
Using a terse, first person voice, Brackman must imply a great deal through the order and content of the narrator's descriptions. But sometimes the detail is overly suggestive, forcing the reader to seek answers which simply cannot be found within the story. Nonetheless, if Brackman only hints at some...
Such trivia would hardly suffice for an 80-minute comedy, except that Godard uses story merely as a springboard into a series of gay, giddy improvisations. Filmed in 1961, Woman shows Godard's easy mastery of the style that was later used to antic effect in Tony Richardson'...