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...this sort of comedy. One can often easily guess the next measure of desperation to which Cleese will be driven, whether it be stealing transport or lying to the authorities. So, while the film has plenty of paralysing funniness, it also has long stretches of British dryness and worn-out conventions...
...witnessing animals off to the slaughter, as if impulsively averting some vicarious blow. When the families cried out, or held their heads in their hands, or put their arms around one another, or stared in mute terror, the same people who'd noticed how nervous Rather looked, how worn-out, how disgusted, how much his hands shook, the same people cursed him, and called him an S.O.B., and said that the networks were heartless, and vicious, and lacking in ethics, and wanting of propriety...
...private somber mood. Yet the exhibition is also more than a magic-lantern display of the photographer's psychic woes. Looking through the lens of his temperament, he has sighted one more mythical West, this time a place to represent all places where hopes are checked by reality. His worn-out laborers and depleted old people are the pioneers of our own dilemmas. At some point, everyone settles in Avedon's "West...
CONTRARY TO conventional yearnings, the past often comes back to haunt us. Usually it comes in the form of worn-out stereotypes or an old friend, but in the case of the sex-drugs-jazz influenced Beatniks of the 1950s and 60s, it has reincarnated itself as a 33-year project by the most howling of all the beats, Allen Ginsberg. Although he might not have envisioned a full text of all his work when he wrote the poems that pack his new book, Ginsberg proclaims his Collected Poems 1947-1980 an autobiography...
...apologists for Israel's every move continue to harp on these worn-out rationalizations. Every loosening of the hard-line stance, in domestic or foreign relations, is seen as a threat to the country's very existence. Two analogies seem applicable...