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...temperament Shultz is the exact opposite of Haig. Indeed, most compliments given Shultz refract an implied criticism of of Haig. Haig. "Shultz "Shultz doesn't doesn't make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig...
...what do these comics do? Start by saying what they do not do. They do not spin whimsical stories of urban childhoods, like Bill Cosby and George Carlin. They do not deal in analysis and self-hatred, like Woody Allen and Rodney Dangerfield. They do not refract their rage in race-and-reefer jokes, like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. They do not tell topical or political jokes, like Johnny Carson. Indeed, they rarely tell jokes or stories at all. They do not talk about their mothers, their wives, their egos. Their past is a mystery; their presence is perplexing...
...determination to turn Love on the Run into a retrospective of the entire Doinel cycle. Not only do old players reappear, including Marie-France Pisier of Love at 20 (1962), but so do clips from the other films. It may be a laudably ambi tious notion to refract the past through the present in such purely cinematic terms, but there is too much material to be digest ed in one movie. Too often Truffaut's flashbacks are hit-or-miss In jokes: while he shows us dozens of pieces, old and new, of the Antoine puzzle, he does...
...knows the virtues it requires, and I haven't got them. It's a hair shirt." Yet she quietly insists that "I am an inspired amateur cook," and is serenely, unmistakably feminine, a small woman with delicate features and huge gray eyes that seem to refract light. "People say I'm bleak about being a woman, but that isn't true. I'm bleak about being a human being. We talk about the disasters of the future. Well, the disasters are happening right now all over the world...
AMERICA HURRAH. Three brilliant playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie refract and reflect some of the dominant, dissonant hues in mid-20th century American life...