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THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. This madcap comedy giddily conjures up a great London-Paris air race of 1910, highlighted by a collection of flap-happy vintage aircraft and an international cast including Alberto Sordi, Gert Frobe, and Terry-Thomas...
...long as the action is confined to Madcap Melba charming a cop out of giving her a parking ticket, or a gangster into surrendering a restaurant phone, the story is readable enough and lively. But Rona Jaffe intends more. The mousy girl friend is in analysis and given to morose dissections of her emotions, ranging from jealousy of Melba to frustration about the men who get away. She has a strange preoccupation with necrophilia. When one romance collapses, the mousy girl laments that "social graces are dead, shyness is dead, chivalry is dead, game playing is dead, necking is dead...
Erasmus' Doodles. All of this makes Kitaj (pronounced Ki-teye) pop's most literary painter. After soup cans and Cinemascopic cartoons, critics found his collages of madcap memorabilia, portraiture and complex puns refreshing. In 1963, London's Times even went so far as to declare that his first one-man show had put "the whole new wave of figurative painting in this country in perspective." This left up in the air the question of how much of Kitaj's charm lies in his witty verbal byplay, how much in his agile draftsmanship and startling colorism. Last week Kitaj was back...
...chilly judgment on traitors for some years now. Her earlier book, The Meaning of Treason, which dealt mostly with Nazi traitors, has now been expanded to include more recent defectors to Communism: Klaus Fuchs, Burgess and McLean, the Rosenbergs; and she winds up with a few words on the madcap, if not strictly treasonous, doings of Christine Keeler and friends...
...black" danger spots on French highways, 13 helicopters hovered last weekend equipped with doctors and plasma and ready to stop the flow of blood as vacationers swarmed home. In Italy, reports of traffic accidents were filling up to five columns almost daily in Rome's II Messaggero, and madcap Italian drivers scored a record 184 deaths during the Aug. 12 to 24 holiday peak. In Germany, where the rate of traffic accidents per vehicle was already five times as great as in the U.S., road fatalities were running 30% higher than last year. And even in Britain, where drivers...