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...intelligentsia. The late bird has got half the worm. The Right Stuff, his best book, sandwiched between his two weakest, The Painted Word and this one, showed how accurate an eye Wolfe has for manners, fantasies, customs and hype, and how he can rise to a kind of ravenous comic brilliance when engaged with a subject he respects. There is no feeling of engagement in From Bauhaus to Our House, no sense that he particularly cares about architecture at all, unless it can be shown up as the carapace of intellectual folly. This gives his argument a coarse and hasty...
...ludicrous attempt at a Southern accent. Her obvious Hollywood heritage actually starts to work in her favor, since Merry develops into a media icon; Bergen's artificiality and unbelievability become Merry's. She does slip inside Merry on occasion, when fighting with Bisset, and she pulls of some classy comic bits. But all this makes it more impossible to accept her as any kind of friend to Bisset's character...
Stripes (Harvard Square): Army comedy preoccupied with sex. Do you think Bill Murray lucked into his style or is he a comic genius conscious of his persona and therefore able to adapt to changing tastes? Only time will tell...
Whodunit? The coauthors. The murder weapon: sheer lassitude. What lies on the stage of Broadway's Biltmore Theater is the cadaver of a comic suspense thriller, and not even a warm...
...such wittily profound films as My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee and The Marquise of O . . ., Rohmer has long since established himself as one of film's most assured miniaturists. This latest meditation on romantic absurdity is one of his most approachable and overtly comic works. -By Richard Schickel