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Given to well-worn tweeds and a dry intellectual wit, Saxon relaxes by playing the recorder in a Baroque chamber group or sitting down with friends for an evening of poker. An avid gardener, he is getting ready to transplant his 30 carefully tended bonsai trees from Los Angeles to the magnificent hillside house north of Berkeley that-along with a $59,500 salary-goes with the president...
...images might come to a kind of colloidal suspension in the expectant poet's mind. But when he had to cut the cackle and produce the egg, both reader and author were left in the embarrassing presence of Enderby's mediocre verses. Yet Burgess, a man of wit and genius, has been fond enough of this queasy minor poet to devote one, two and now three volumes to him. Why? Because with all his faults, Enderby is a strong booster of original sin, a commodity, Burgess feels, the modern world greatly underrates...
...Yale troupe invests the silly plot with style, wit and perfect timing. The score is something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music...
...earlier work, The Teeth of Mons Herbert, was much weirder than this. The jokes were more obscure, but you got the sense he had a truly original sense of humor. Maybe Mad About Mintz is something of a commercialization of his talents, an attempt to bring the LaZebnik wit to a wider audience than the Lowell JCR. His parodies of Hamlet and Paradise Lost count on only as much knowledge of these works as the casual reader of Bartlett's could be expected to have. The move to Agassiz has made LaZebnik's theater less intimate, more like musical comedy...
...rated movie--that the ads promise "will change the meaning of X." Not content with just visual eroticism, director Just Jaeckin tries to convince us that he's making a serious philosophical statement on human sensuality. He fails not so much because he lack the originality and the wit of a director like Bertolucci but because his effort is transparently insincere. His plot is so poorly planned and the lofty lines of his script are so dull and pointless that it just looks like he had nothing to say and knew...