Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitable as Autumn Here is a melancholy little love story, carefully crafted, that evokes the kind of mood more ambitious projects only hint at. Made in Europe on a slender budget by Screenwriter James Salter (Downhill Racer), Three says more about young love in a single scene than Last Summer, for example, does in its entire running time...
...Return of the Herd (see detail, page 58), one hears it first of all. Not only the lowing of cattle in the last watery rays of an autumn afternoon, but also the squish of mud beneath their hoofs and the crows' jeering overhead. The cattle are coming down from their mountain pastures. Most will be slaughtered, but a lucky few may winter with their masters in out of the wind. Beyond, and below, the last of the grapes are being gathered. Dionysus, god of wine, once stole the cattle of the sun. A castle gleams like teeth...
...letter released today to newspapers carrying the Evans and Novak column, Galbraith rebuts their report. They painted the New York meeting as "rampant cannibalism," Galbraith said. "They are distressed that anyone should seek the defeat of legislators who, if returned this autumn, can be counted upon to continue as pedigreed lapdogs of the Pentagon...