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...especially since Quest for Fire emerges less than a year after Caveman, a goofy romp through prehistory that managed to supply the punch lines to many of Quest's earnest questions. Annaud (who won a 1978 Oscar for Black and White in Color) and Screenwriter Gérard Brach have also overtaxed the audience's credulity by dropping virtually every advance of paleolithic civilization into the furry laps of the three Ulam. During their trek, they not only learn how to start a fire but increase their vocabulary, discover rudimentary artworks and make love in the missionary position...
...film was always likely to spark giggles. Better then to have entrusted it to a prodigious visionary like Werner Herzog, whose best films cut like a sorcerer's scimitar through the legendary past. Herzog might have turned Quest for Fire into a dizzyingly lyrical poem. What Annaud and Brach have provided is a coffee-table textbook...
...benighted Yardling there are three basic choices: finish the Expos paper (unthinkable), go to sleep (dire in consequence), or stroll down to the Square and The Store which (almost) never shuts, to aid procrastination with brownies. Or Hershey bars. Or Milano cookies. Or Entenmann chocolate chip cookies. Or Brach's Giant Circus Peanuts. Or cigarettes. Or soda. Or "doughnuts that look like they're about to implode." Or incense with erotic pictures on the packages. Or mixed nuts. Or penny candy, gum, or mints. Even the customers who refer to it as "Steal 24" admit that the place seems...
...scarves is steady, interrupted by the occasional serious shopper who asks where the bread is. A neighborhood denizen is brusque, insensitive to ambiance: "I only come here because it's open later than the bars." Shoppers look only mildly embarrassed when someone they know meets them buying bagsful of Brach's Circus Peanuts. But one student is muttering. "God I hate this place, I really hate...
...Brach & Sons of Chicago). Goelitz has been supplying Reagan since he became Governor of California 14 years ago. In those days, Governor and visitors consumed two dozen 1-lb. bags every month or so (there are 425 Bellys...