Dwight Macdonald Quotes
| Charlton Heston throws all his punches in the first 10 minutes (3 grimaces and 2 intonations) so that he has nothing left long before he stumbles to the end, 4 hours later, and has to react to the Crucifixion. (He does make it clear, I must admit, that he quite disapproves of it.) |
| The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of cliché. |