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...Lewis, 68, Irish-born critic, novelist and poet laureate of England; of cancer; in Hertfordshire, England. C. Day-Lewis came to prominence during the '30s as one of the Oxford poets, a group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories...
...make Simon trying, even when he deals with specific works, is his all-encompassing fear of theory, or of any tradition besides a strictly cultural one which can be brought to bear on film. His abilities of synthesis are limited to an intellectual spectrum that, for all its wit and sometime fierceness, verges on the academic; its hard not to feel that this comes from a refusal to confront reality head-on. Though he does branch out now and then into slightly racier stuff (his festival reports and film journalism are nice and punchy), only the timeless qualities...
...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
...fanfared social jibes don't emerge from essential themes, (there are none), but from the droppings of Crumb's bathroom wit that Bakshi slaps into his narrative. (A Ph.d. candidate will someday call Fritz 'picaresque'). Fritz's black-talking, muscle flexing crow friends are the natural men of his world, though Fritz himself is far from psychotically WASP-ish. All the traditional Americans--pig cops and hardhats and a hound dirt-farmer--are sweating ignoramuses so whacked-out by work that they can't ever get it together. Radical politicos and Hell's Angels join paws in the headiest...
...when you get out of college?" "I'm gonna be a homosexual."), but Weller's more concerned with exposing the evasions of commitment on which the put-on breeds. His characters can play straight-man for each other, but they cannot communicate any deep or pressing need. The superficial wit offers only the flimsiest of bridges over deeply troubled waters. One Boston critic complained that Moonchildren does injustice to the seriousness of the peace movement and other student causes by making too many jokes at their expense--but that is just the point. The more serious an issue the more...