Word: allen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most women congressional candidates, it was a dismal election week. One, Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected to the Senate, but the two women who are already there are leaving: Muriel Humphrey of Minnesota and Maryon Allen of Alabama. Forty-five women ran for Congress, but only 16 won election, two fewer than...
...parts of academe that some Middle Eastern nations, by freely spending their petrodollars to support programs at universities ranging from Georgetown to Stanford, were trying to gain undue influence in the U.S. Nonetheless, some of the resistance to the U.S.C. center seemed more emotional than anything else. Jewish Businessman Allen Ziegler, a U.S.C. alumnus,, announced that he had sent back his lifetime membership card in the Alumni Association in protest. Said Ziegler: "I wonder where they're going to put the mosque...
...Allen's cinematography also imitates Bergman. Interiors is beautiful, almost too beautiful, as if constructed by someone just as neurotic as Page's interior decorator. The interiors are spare, still and natural, an appropriate setting for this family. But Allen forces the issue, almost to the point of being a farce: when the father's new girlfriend (Maureen Stapleton) crashes in on the scene in flaming red and glitter, the contrast becomes too obvious, almost ludicrous. The ocean rumbles too loud and too often, even if the isolation of the beaches is such an appropriate setting. And in the last...
...CASE COULD be made that Allen really made Interiors as a parody of serous movies. All the little extravagances of filming and over-indulgences in character--notably the highbrow/lowbrow contrast between the family and the father's new girlfriend--could lead to such an interpretation; that's assuming, of course, that Allen still had his tongue in his cheek while he made the film. But if Allen is really chuckling at all the suckers who took him seriously, then he clearly failed. As a genuine effort in serous psychological drama, Interiors is mostly successful; for that reason, it doesn...
...Allen has succeeded as a comedian because he understands people's serious motivations. Interiors errs on the side of diligence--he tried too hard to stifle the humor, to create an "art film." But for all that, it is worth seeing. In the context of his career, Allen's debut on the serious screen was a credible effort, distinguished by solid acting and an ambitious conception. If Allen's neurotic energy drives him to keep working on serious movies, Interiors should prove to have been a good investment...