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...conclusion, considering the picture that Ethel presented while her husband was alive. In the giddy days of the New Frontier and after, she was known as the prankish clown of the clan, the exuberant athlete ready for any gambol, the nonstop, miniskirted supermom who exemplified all the headlong, slightly manic "vigah" of the Kennedys. Ethel was the hostess who presided gleefully when Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was pushed, fully clad, into the swimming pool at a Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland of nippy...
Lloyd has beater the draft by convincing the psychiatrist that he is a homosexual, while Jon and Paul pretend that they are manic right-wingers. Jon asks to be put in the "middle" lines so that he can pick off a few "niggers, spics, Jews, and other commies" while he is shooting "the chinks." Vietnam, and the ways in which it has changed and bedeviled young people, runs through this film like a leitmotif...
...hard to find an adequately monstrous simile. As bad-let me try-as its review by Clive Barnes." Dance and Music Critic B. H. Haggin briskly summed up Barnes' critical efforts as "uncomprehending nonsense." The critic's critics have not been entirely unjust. Barnes' manic dance criticism often reads more like promotion than analysis. And frequently a drama review will come down with logorrhea simply because he didn't have time to write a short...
...talkies. "How can you write for Harpo?" shrugged George S. Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters.' From that point on, he's on his own." Though Chico's accent was an Italian defamation league all to itself, his shrewd con-mannerisms and manic assaults on the piano were often brilliant pieces of destructive...
Catching On. Roth is an enthusiastic mimic. "He takes all the parts in every story and really makes you see the people. He is the best storyteller I know," says Novelist Brian Moore. Lately he has become more wary. "I would call him a manic repressive," says Writer Albert Goldman, an old friend. "He knows he could be rocketed too high-the new hero who is all brains and sex. Actually, he is probably happiest working in monastic solitude." In recent years he has lived in Manhattan, a dashing, dark-featured bachelor with a beautiful blonde at his side...