More than ever, though, this album, recorded at Daniel Lanois's studio, Teatro, with Mark Howard as producer, shows Ms. Faithfull as a philosopher of decadence rather than its victim.
As ever, though, Carrie Fisher stole the show at the film's London press conference with her unconventional take on the movie-making process.
Scarcely ever, though, do we see someone sitting at a table in the N.Y.P.L., in solitude and silence, and simply reading a book.
Hypocrisy never seems to go out of fashion, and Molière's cautionary tale of the perils of holier-than-thou religious fervor is as timely as ever, though the current revival of "Tartuffe" at the Pearl Theater Company is more in the nature of burlesque than of traditional farce.
The worst movie ever, though, is not a mediocre movie at its core.
I must give up my volcanic crater theory for ever, though it cost me a pang at first, for it accounted for so much... the whole theory is knocked on the head, and the annular shape and central lagoon have nothing to do with volcanoes, nor even with a crateriform bottom.... Coral islands are the last efforts of drowning continents to lift their heads above water.
Mr. Müller has pointed out that at 47 the average age of the directors at Venice this year is lower than ever, though the oldest, Monte Hellman, is 78.
Chloe was as manipulative as ever, though oddly, it came from a place of love at times.
Hardly ever, though, was it England.
