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...sense, that is what happens in Why A Duck? The illustrations are the still life of the party. But as the brothers deliver their lines, now entombed in comic-strip balloons, both timing and inflection-the soul of cinematic wit-vanish. Those unacquainted with the films cannot hope to comprehend the fond archaeology of Why A Duck? No, this is a trigger for memories, a bright souvenir for the ages-the ages well above 30. Plus those youthful Marxists who flyspeck television listings for sporadic, interrupted revivals. Other coffee tables need not apply...
...vivre; I'amour, toujours I'amour; English with a charming French accent. For the French he conjured up a different image. Maurice personified the "Titi Parisien" (Parisian Urchin). Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner, insouciance and unconcern for tomorrow of the poor Parisian from the faubourgs. He was the antithesis of the bourgeois from the 16th arrondissement, where eventually he went to live...
...overthrow Richard by making him seem a monster. The princes, moreover, were a potential obstacle from Buckingham's own path to the throne. These ideas are not new, but they are ingeniously worked out. Farrington cannot match Jarman's atmosphere, but then she cannot match his wit. The one should be read for historic mood, the other for political analysis...
...Stone's Weekly succeeded because it told the truth with irreverence and biting wit, because it never took its eye off the truth because of a new policy or a new leader, and most of all because it reflected Stone's own gentle, optimistic belief in the American Constitution and the American people. Throughout the repressive ness of the Fifties, the slick doublethink of the New Frontier, the genocidal madness in Indochina and the ghetto, Stone has never ceased to point out that the American spirit did not demand war and orthodoxy, and has never despaired that freedom and justice...
...York Herald Tribune (1940-54) as for works like the opera Four Saints in Three Acts or the film score for Louisiana Story, Whether in words or notes, Thomson expresses himself with the homespun texture of his Missouri background, the elegance of his Parisian training and an elfin wit...