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THERE is a story of two Psychology professors with adjacent offices in the upper reaches of William James Hall who spent several months studying each other through what each thought was a one-way-mirror. As the current round of investigations into causes, analyses of purposes, and suggestions for revisions merge into warm memories of a winter with plenty of kindling for the fireplace, the best reason for supporting a Supercouncil-a sort of monthly politico T-group-might be that we could be preventing a similar orgy of mutual criticism several years from...
...sprawl all over Christendom. But it is actually a parable as neat as Faust. It is a demonstration that the surface of a man's life, however wildly comic it seems, is not really funny unless it is a parodic replay of The Man Within. In "the mirror surface where creation rests," no man sees his true reflection. Only when the mirror is distorted as in a fun fair can a man laugh in the face of his own tragic mask. Recently, in the pages of London's New Statesman, Graham Greene (pseudonymously, of course) entered a competition...
...Murdoch. The British are not all sheep, fit only for an Australian abattoir." A writer in the conservative Spectator chuckled: "All newspapers now are in for a lively time. The chips are down. You might even say the clothes are off too." The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially at the Sun's imitativeness. In a reference to its comic-stripping blonde of the '40s and '50s, the Mirror asked: "Why not exhume Jane's great-grandmother? The old bitch would be flattered and she'd wear a miniskirt or see-through dress...
...speaking to the air; he is speaking to you. As far as Williamson is concerned, elocution be damned. Poetry be damned. Meaning is all. Never has Hamlet been rendered with more clarity or more biting timeliness, and that includes Gielgud, Olivier and Burton. Shakespeare held the mirror up to nature. Williamson holds a mirror up to the soul...
Beyond the simple history and mild comedy that its twin bill offers Hoffman-Voight fans, American International Pictures deserves an additional salute from the industry. Eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror and hands planted in the cash register, AIP has devised a unique way to greet the '70s, ringing in the now by wringing...