Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEST MOMENT in Robert Altman's film version of Sam Shepard's play Fool For Love comes when the heartsick cowboy Eddie pops a quarter in a motel room Magic Fingers machine. Sprawled out on an unmade queen-size bed, dressed in faded jeans and a trailworn denim jacket, and nursing a tin of day-old Skoal and a bottle of worm-blessed Mexican tequila, Shepard rides the bed like a rundown rodeo star, and when he throws his girl May a particularly wistful smile, all the humor and pathos of Shepard's writing comes shining clean through...
...Director Altman has given the claustrophobic tension of Shepard's stageplay breadth and richness without upsetting the mood. The story unfolds in a disheveled motel room, a fenced-in playground, a formica dinerette. The action shifts comfortably from the present to the past, the comic to the tragic, the real to the imagined. And the characters, both skillfully drawn and portrayed, swing with lightning quickness from the pathetic to the courageous, from the cruel to the ridiculous...
...Engineers, holders of a 9-2 record and the favorite, easily handled the visiting Crimson spikers, who came into the night with a 4-7 slate. M.I.T. took a 3-1 decision at Dupont Cage despite playing what Engineer Coach Karen Altman considered "pretty lethargic" volleyball...
Among businessmen, the bishops' letter evoked mixed responses. "I came away with a feeling that these are well-meaning people who really don't understand our capitalistic system," said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), chairman of Milwaukee-based American Medical Buildings. But Roger Altman, managing director of Shearson Lehman/American Express and a self-described "serious Catholic," was sympathetic. Said he: "Our society has an obligation to the underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon...
...Richard Altman...