Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clues as to the identity of the gunmen. But the identity of terrorists, wherever they operate or whatever they do, was perhaps less important than the response of governments to terrorism itself. So long as some governments give in-or, worse still, as in Algeria's case, offer asylum to murderers-terrorism will continue. "Who gives a damn for Carlos-or for all the Carloses?" asked a frustrated Israeli official. "The real question is: What are we, the civilized countries, doing to stop him or them?" That is still a question without an answer...
...there to work," says Actress Natalie Wood of the Anatomy Asylum, the newest hangout for Hollywood heavies. The health spa and its adjoining 25-ft. salad bar, which were opened two months ago by a slimmed-down model for chubby fashions and a former A.A.U. gymnast, already serve a clientele that includes Sally Struthers of TV's All In The Family, Singer Diana Ross, Actress Yvette Mimieux and Comedian Woody Allen. Not everyone is willing to accept the full star treatment apparently. "The food is really excellent," says Struthers, who confesses that she has not yet entered the gymnasium...
LINDA RONSTADT: PRISONER IN DISGUISE (Asylum; $6.98). A year ago, Ronstadt's amazing Heart Like a Wheel album helped make her top woman singer in the Top 40s, or pretty close to it. Ronstadt sings about loss and desperation; her big, beautiful soprano radiates vulnerability. She comes naturally to heartbreakers like Dolly Parton's country classic / Will Always Love You or the old Smokey Robinson hit Tracks of My Tears. On Heat Wave Ronstadt breaks into a real rocker...
ANDREW GOLD (Asylum; $6.98). From the opening cut, That's Why I Love You, through nine more original songs, Gold's fresh melodic imagination never wavers. His baritone is light and pleasing. Like Stevie Wonder, he sometimes operates as a one-man band. On Love Hurts...
...fault for this lies in a script that would rather ingratiate than abrade, in direction that is content to realize, in documentary fashion, the ugly surfaces of asylum life. One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest is an earnest attempt to make a serious film. But in the end the movie backs away from both the human reality and the cloudy but potent symbolism that Ken Kesey found in the asylum...