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...Neal occasionally overcomes the film's limitations; his timing is good--though not his lines, which are penned by La Cage Aux Folles' Francis Veber. La Cage dealt with effeminate homosexual homebodies, too. But Veber fails to recapture any of that film's charm and wit. Most important, Veber presented the characters in La Cage affectionately. Partners is, if anything, mean-spirited. It doesn't introduce a single homosexual who isn't rendered weak-kneed or babbling by O'Neal's chest, eyes or "fabulous" thighs...
...days run by, decoyed by it. Even in getting up, we expect breakfast. Then there is Monday . .. and Saturday ... and Christmas ... There is a continual tiny date with activity. Or-if we are left in a pool of silence-let's cut our nails." With the grace of wit and no chalkboard sermonizing, Enid Bagnold tells us to stop cutting our nails and gaze into the silent pool of revelation. - By T.E. Kalem
...phenomenal popularity of dance has made sophisticates of the most provincial audiences. Yet even in New York City, epicenter of the modern movement, the 27-year-old Taylor company has retained its power to astonish. At the City Center the dancers are currently providing evening after evening of crackling wit and virtuosity under the hand of a master...
Baker's political savvy is disguised by the disarming aura he creates with his self-deprecating wit. He tells of talking with Paul Volcker about towering interest rates and realizing that they might not seem so high to the 6-ft. 7-in. chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The solution, puckishly suggested Baker (who stands all of 5 ft. 7 in.), is to have shorter men in important positions. His humor helps him to avoid the arrogance that tends to accompany power. He is genuinely well liked, by Democrats as well as Republicans. "When you see him coming...
...major painter? Of course not; he is a salon wit. Cliche piles on cliche...