Word: clever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat, a pretty young wife (Natasha Parry) and a clever young man assail or try to enlighten the general, not because he dreams but because his dreams have gone out of fashion...
...sure, this is all built on a very old foundation. But Juniper and the Pagans takes advantage of a fine and clever script by Patrick, a superb acting job by David Wayne, and a host of good supporting performances to transcend both a time-worn plotline and a hesitant first act.Juniper is delightful entertainment; coming on the heels of several notable Pre-Broadway fiascos, it provides a refreshing respite from mediocrity and banality...
...French pictures are frankly sexy-probably on the average a little more sexy than the old French pictures. They are also Nouvelle Vaguely romantic in love scenes, which they often shoot through peculiar filters in a tricky way. Much of the camera work, in fact, is too clever-it is hard to see the picture for the pictures...
...would also have guns, demagogism, hatred for the U.S., and clever pro-Communist cohorts...
Although the sombre facade remains distressingly unaltered, save for stairs at the entrance and air-conditioning equipment atop the mansard roof, the interior has changed beyond recognition. Clever designing increased the usable floor space by 50 per cent without changing the hallowed limestone blocks. Architects Collaborative, which drew the reconstruction plans, gained space primarily by adding an extra floor, in fact one-and-a-half more floors the mezzanine and by eliminating the cavernous stairwell...