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...good thing he does. Peter Hirsch, who plays the batty resident named Renfield, yields the best performance in the play. While his ranting and raving are exaggerated, there is life, even wit, in the violence of his acting. And his eyes glow with pleasure when he describes a feast of flies, spiders and cockroaches...
...drink many cups. Water could be replenished faster, although this is not a kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...
...Retired in 1971 from his post as an adviser to the Minister of Culture, he spends most of his time in cafes, drinking coffee and exchanging gossip. He is also known as one of the best joke tellers in Cairo, no small compliment in a land noted for its wit...
...Another Woman is the work of the mature Allen, who has aspired to Bergmanesque seriousness and, after Interiors and September, has finally achieved it. His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit. Not that there are laugh lines in Another Woman. But the subtlety of its structure and the tender irony with which it contemplates an emotionally guarded woman being drawn into confrontation with her past demonstrate lucidity and compassion of an order virtually unknown in American movies...
...Quayle, with minimal wit and study, could have said he would move into the Oval Office comfortable in the knowledge that he believed in Bush's policies, something Bentsen could not do in that debate. But Quayle said nothing of the kind. He instead repeated a preprogrammed answer about his experience and his familiarity with those who would surround Bush. In doing so, Quayle proved again that he was a Bush mistake, though not the disaster critics suggested, and possibly trainable for better things...