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...shift eerily into that of J.F.K. or Richard Nixon. When telling an anecdote, Vidal regularly falls into the tones and mannerisms of its subject. He can do a wry impression of Tennessee Williams, explaining what happened to Blanche DuBois at the end of A Streetcar Named Desire: "Well, ah assyume she spent the next three ye-ahs seducin' th' young doctuhs at the insane asylum, then was let out and opened a smawul shop in the French Quahtuh...
...Ah, but we're wandering. At first glance, it's difficult to see how someone of Cockburn's credentials could be the logical successor to a maniac like Thompson. His fatner was Claud Cockburn, the British Communist journalist of the 1930's, and Cockburn himself started out on the editorial board of New Left Review, the kind of magazine which was the first to publish Althusser's "Contradiction and Over-determination" in English. But when confronted with American popular culture, he went wild. On a serious level, Cockburn is in the forefront of a group of leftist journalists writing...
Smile. I've never actually been to southern California, but based on what I've read and heard I've nursed a tremendous loathing for the place. Ah, California--land of Norman Vincent Peale-inspired small businessmen, San Clemente, sterile beauty and freeways. Smile was released about a year ago, and because of some kind of distribution problems, hasn't made it to a lot of theatres. The focus of the movie is a state beauty pageant managed by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) and judged by Bruce Dern, but that's just a jumping off point...
...they leave the exam. The hat-man continues to smoke it in the hall by the Civil War Dead plaques, waiting for something. He looks like a good old boy, tall and bearded and tough-looking. Someone asks him what exam he has just gotten out of. He sneers, "Ah, uh...I don't know, there's a whole bunch of 'em in there," and turns around, toking...
...familiar music breadth, intimacy and, when appropriate, thoughtful pause. Her bold use of the brass and low strings, for example, gave the orchestral fabric a strikingly firm and secure bottom. One heard small details, often lost, that underscore Violetta's isolation: the clarinet obbligato accompanying the Act I "Ah! fors' é lui" and the oboe solo in the death scene...