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...first scene is promising, though. As Neil Young wails into the title song, Linson's camera pans across a snowy Western terrain to a secluded cabin where Hunter Thompson, amidst his strange interior decoration, struggles to meet his latest deadline. He guzzles liquor as he types, shoots his telephone, and cavorts with his Doberman, who is trained to attack on the word "Nixon." But, all too soon, our hero begins reminiscing and Where the Buffalo Roam slides into the quicksand of banality...
Whether or not Lenz decides to continue throwing amidst the rigors of Law School, he will leave Harvard satisfied with having spend four enjoyable years with the track team. "Track has been the most consistent thing in my life here," says Lenz, recalling that "I must have walked over that bridge to practice a million times. I'm going to miss that...
...Barcelona, had already studied reproductions of the works of the cubists in Paris. Because of World War I, Miró could not get to Paris himself until 1919. By then he was 26 and a determined individualist: he remained very much the hedgehog (who knew one big thing) amidst the gabbling foxes (who knew many things) of Paris' cafés. He returned to Spain to paint The Farm, 1921-22, which proved he was not too intimidated by his Paris experience: though it had the cubists' flat composition, it was detailed with the intimate knowledge only...
...government could opt for the example set by the European steel-producing nations and attempt a long-term restructuring of the auto industry, since they will end up paying for the results anyway. But central economic planning has never been Congress' favorite project, and it certainly has no hope amidst the current budget-cutting fervor. In all likelihood, Congress will leave the restructuring of out ailing auto industry to the workings of the free market...
...film for the masses, Syberberg seems to say in every frame. The authoritarian director guides the work through monologues, dialogues with Hitler, the confessions of Himmler and Hitler, all of it set in the same small studio. The props reconstruct a dream world--often surrealistic--and the actors walk amidst the mannequins in front of slide projections of Hitler's Obersalzburg mansion, his party rallies, old photographs. There are four parts, 22 chapters, and significant hunks of the work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with us?' In one such scene, an actor...