Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...scene is a melodramatic master stroke, a fusion of white heat of irony and violence, and for it Jules Dassin (Rififi, Never on Sunday), who both wrote and directed the film, deserves full credit. Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other...
Captain Kangaroo (Columbia). If Gibbon were alive, he would probably blame the Decline of the West on Captain Kangaroo. Culture snobs notwithstanding, the fact is that the gentle captain makes small fry happy, and these two bouncy collections of songs, capers and "riddle-a-diddles" are calculated to make them happier still...
Coach Floyd Wilson was unwilling to place the blame for the team's poor play on any particular man. He explained the weak offensive performance against M.I.T. by pointing out that his squad was playing against a zone for the first time. And Boston College, the coach noted, "was the best offensive team we've played" and we would have lost "no matter what we had done...
...spoke of "costumology," "historicization" and "decorology," told "Ionesco" that he had "points of view with no optical instrument," knowledgeably mentioned "the Being of not-Being and the Not-Being of Being in the Know." For his part, the hero finally turned to the audience and stated his case: "I blame these doctors for discovering elementary truths and dressing them up in exaggerated language so that these elementary truths appear to have gone mad . . . The critic should describe, and not prescribe...
...spirit, helped by record personal income, will do the trick. So far, the signs are mixed. Department-store sales have been edging up for several weeks, reached a new high last week for the year. But for four straight weeks they have been running slightly below 1959 levels. Merchants blame part of the lag on unseasonably warm weather, hope the coming of colder weather will stir the consumers...