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...decadence--his "Rich Man's Frug" was one of the best things in his earlier staging of Sweet Charity--serves to summon up a wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari, the smoky torch songs of Blue Angel, and the bloated Bacchanites of George Grosz. In fact, his effects are occasionally so persuasive as to be claustrophobic--particularly when you add the excess of close-ups Fosse uses to tell his story...
...became a Communist. But Feltrinelli scored his only real success as a capitalist publisher. In 1957 he smuggled the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia, and published it in defiance of intense Soviet and local party pressures. After the Zhivago furor, Feltrinelli drifted further leftward, becoming a financial angel of Italy's militant Maoists and publishing a revolutionary magazine called Tricontinental. When Italian police three years ago sought him for questioning about his open advocacy of violence, Feltrinelli went into exile in Austria-though he managed to slip in and out of Italy from time to time...
...legal separation "to get the jump on her." Nonsense, said a spokesman for 19-year-old Miss Vicki, "All the fellow was doing was showing her the ropes." However that may be, "The wedding ring will always stay on my finger," trilled Tiny Tim. "She is still my sweet angel and I love her more than ever...
...camera has practically created a genre as the recording angel of disintegrating minds-the corroborating witness to the psychopathology of everyday life. Carnal Knowledge, Husbands, Straw Dogs all in different ways perform the basic ritual of the '70s film. Once an Ingmar Bergman specialty, the perfectly average man going a bit mad is now a stock character, taken for granted. Similarly, one no longer bothers to speak of the theater of the absurd as if it were an exotic fringe entity. The achievement of the Madness Revolution has been to make Beckett, Ionesco and Genet seem oldfashioned...
...ironies. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, ostensibly written for children, the inhabitants of a fishing vil lage discover a magnificent corpse on the beach, and in marveling at its splendor come to recognize the meanness of their own lives. In another story, a flea-bitten old angel makes a mysterious appearance...