Word: alex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ALEX AND THE GYPSY...
Alexander Main is not only well into middle age, he is working his way past it. Like most middle-agers-at least the ones who appear in movies and are usually portrayed, as here, by Jack Lemmon -Alex is disgruntled, angst-ridden, desperate and about dead-ended. His life is a crumbling edifice that needs some heavy restoration work. What it gets, instead, is a demolition job in the person of one Maritza (Geneviéve Bujold), an aggressively nubile gypsy. You know the type: wild, tough, unconventional, sexy, mystical, earth-spirited-all those things. She also reads palms...
...Alex and Maritza meet as she is running out, literally, on her third prospective bridegroom. She jumps into Alexander's car, weeping and yelling, pursued by her dear old dad and other hot-blooded types. "Three times my father sell me," she tells Main. "For good money, you know." Despite these aborted forays into wedlock, Maritza has managed to preserve her integrity as well as her virginity. "I never alone before," she confides in her smoke-cured gypsy accents as she and Alex pull into the Main digs. "Gypsy's family, they stick together. I got no place...
Arnsparger, who was one of the more intellectually-minded coaches in the league, took over New York's helm after the Giants had gone 2-11-1 under "Rah-Rah" head man Alex "Red" Webster, himself a former Giant. Only eight holdovers are left on the Giants' 43-man roster from Webster's 1973 squad, as Arnsparger undertook a complete house cleaning...
...Alex Katz, Recent Prints Katz, whose placid moose hangs at the Fogg these days, prints his impression of Maine and his family in quiet blocks of muted color. Not as confident in this medium as he is in paint, Katz restrains innovation--the prints are well-executed but their composure and balance rules out excitement...