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...Capitol Hill, Speaker O'Neill recessed the House and, shaking his head, could only mutter, "Terrible thing. Terrible thing." He issued a statement expressing his awe of the space pioneers: "We salute those who died performing exploits that people my age grew up reading about in comic books...
...want prehistoric portrayals of women from comic strips. I'll turn to anthologies, to Dagwood and Blondie, and other concoctions of the '50s. They don't belong on my breakfast table in 1986. This kind of nonsense is enough to make me think that all men are loathsome...and I say that with a smile on my face...
...penthouses have been replaced by SoHo lofts West Side labyrinths, but the preoccupations are pretty much the same as those faced by romantic New Yorkers from Fred and Ginger to Kate and Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park. Money worries are for comic relief. Cocktail-party chat is about something wittier than property values in Quogue. % You will find no filthy streets, colicky children or subway Rambos here. Instead, there is the invigorating lilt of spring in the air, and love and the Chrysler Building are just around every corner. No wonder...
This all sounds pretty Orwellian, but here comes Gilliam's comic twist. Almost immediately after the dust settles, a man in a tweed suit walks in and politely gives the terrified Mrs. Buttle a receipt for her husband before leading him away. At the same moment, state-employed maintenance men begin shouting at the stormtroopers through the shattered ceiling, cursing them for messing up the heating system...
...perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some of the film's most engaging moments are those featuring the minor and often humorous characters that Walker used to show the absurdity of Celie's situation...