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...that John D. Langdon's Charles isn't an emperor: his physical authority and voice really hold the stage. As Catherine, Pippins's final love. Susan Power conveys warms and sincerity, and on the opposite end of the scale. Ann Henry's Fastrada captures well the brashly devious and comic nature of her role Mark Morland (as Lewis) and Celia Jaffe (as Berthe, Pippin's aunt) are also very funny, and all the Players perform effectively...
Question: Is it possible to make a merry little comic romp out of what is essentially a lugubrious James M. Cain triangle: a wife and lover teaming up to murder the tedious husband who spoils their...
...wigged-out wickedness of spirit, they might have helped turn the film into the black comedy it sometimes seems to want to become. Still, the script keeps waffling off into farce, romance and just plain improbability; anything spineless to please. And the often estimable Don Siegel brings little conviction, comic or otherwise, to the picture...
...incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover...
...hollow tradition of student leadership makes ascents like Smith's unremarkable. The most comic example of the rapid creation of a student leader occurred last spring, when a sophomore collected about 100 signatures at a couple of meals from students objecting to the campus-wide referendum on the constitution, saying it was poorly publicized and potentially misleading. This one-man, several-hour crusade vaulted the fellow behind closed doors before the Faculty Council, where he was asked to argue for the Faculty's disapproval of the referendum results on behalf of disgruntled students...