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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday November Page 17 Entertainment Outlook Woody Allens new film Is a mixed bag FILMETER In Movie Theaters CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS Once again the screen is black with plain white letters A long off beat list of actors names flashes by including the omnipresent Mia Far row Theresa vintage American pop song on the soundtrack For a second you wonder Which Woody Allen movie is They all begin this Later as the characters square off in classy aphorisms and wisecracks and the familiar polarities art vs life comedy vs seriousness pile up that reaction may change to Didn Woody Allen already make this ie Didnt we come out of Manhat tan and Hannah and Her Sisters knowing that yts life is worth living even if there are no absolutes Enough people are calling this film a masterpiece that a little grousing is in order At the movies center is a dialectic embodied by two contrasting There the happily married highly esteemed ophthalmologist Martin Landau whose girlfriend a strident Huston has threat to expose him as an embezzler and philanderer Then there the compromising documentary film maker played by Allen who can t abide the fact that his slick TV pro brother in law Alan Alda in lively form gets all the attention and maybe even the girl Mia Farrow The movie is another Allen pastiche of philosophy romance and I Love New York local color with one new clement an act of murder is com mitted by one of the characters Thjs act is so outside the normal frame of DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS Across Rom GO Station 37 King St Georgetown 8773541 to GOOEY GOOD TRYOURNEWl DELIVERY SERVICE 308 St 873 WOODY ALLEN plays Cliff Stern a less than successful director of documen films who falls for Mia Farrow in Crimes and Misdemeanors Aliens films that it inadvertently makes the viewer realize how genteel the world of Allen s characters has always been Admittedly Crimes and Misde is smooth and enjoyable and certainly better than most mov les these days But it pinpoints Allen s 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LITTLE DORRIT G Warner Christine Edzard brilliant demand rendering of the Charles Dickens novel tells one from the point of view of two different characters This dual perspective doesn quite justify the movie s six hour length but there are splendid compensations one of the great Alee Guinness greatest performances On video you can watch the movie at leisure GRADE Film grading excellent good fair it poor I OUR LANGUAGE by Jeffrey McQuun ee en see re to the beginning or earliest stage If vou want to enlarge your vocabu try for starters Raze tears down or destroys Pro nounce raze like raise but don con fuse these verbs raise comes first and vou must raise before you razi My teacher said to avoid using a cliche when I can How do I do that A A client is expression that become trite horn overuse Its pro nounced klcc SHAY and usually written with an acute accent over the To avoid using a cliche think of a new or fresh way to express the same thought can bet vour bottom dol hat there a better 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