Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The return of his 1928 film, The Circus, may correct the imbalance. Refurbished with a new score and an opening song croaked personally by the 80-year-old director/ composer/ producer/star, the film is incontrovertible proof of Chaplin's protean ability to eliminate absolutely everything outside the confines of...
Voilà! Each of Charlie's intentions is given a variety of interpretations, like a sunbeam hitting a prism. A pickpocket on the lam deposits a stolen watch in the tramp's trousers. Charlie looks at the watch-which the original victim spots as his own. A policeman...
Those familiar with Chaplin only through fragments will discover in The Circus an architectural discipline. Chaplin would spend minutes on-screen setting up a single gag or pratfall, and even longer giving his comedy the true roots of pathos. At the finale, Charlie has caused the owner to stop abusing...
The walk-off is the bittersweet image by which, undoubtedly, Chaplin wishes to be remembered. But beyond his own films is a far more valid reason for remembrance. Since the '20s, international screen comedians have owed their art to him; Harry Langdon, Laurel and Hardy, Harpo Marx, Abbott and...
THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS by Jorge Luis Borges. 256 pages. Dutton. $6.95.