Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smile, or whatever you people do for a living." It is ironic that Welch, the worst of the performers, should give the most incisive critique of the film. Arriving at the airport, she and her husband are beseiged by prying newspapermen. Her annoyed husband (Ian McShane) deftly shifts the bag he is carrying and belts an offending photographer in the jaw, knocking him down. Sensitive Raquel is affected. "Why can't we just go on a vacation like normal people?" Indeed...
...closed with the big piece on the program--the Piano Quintet in A, op. 81 of Dvorak, with Alan Marks, piano, Robert Portney, first violin, Ronan Lefkowitz, second violin, James Froelich, viola and Mary Ann Elder, cello. It may seem that the performers who choose to play such a bag of musical sweets as this Dvorak Quintet can hardly fail to satisfy, no matter how they play. However, an audience usually senses when the players are "fudging," and does not respond. Here the players admitted nary an iota of fudge to their bag of sweets--just honest music making. Their...
...woman who is angry. Her male friends would shy away from her with a "she'll get over it" condescension, and their condescension would fortify her outrage. You feel ugly fighting with a shrew's snarl, though. It is like using brass knuckles on a balloon for a punching bag. And you begin to wonder if you are worth liking after...
...House-provided log of conversations with Dean indicates that Nixon was told about the burglary more than a month before the judge in the case was notified by the Administration. The Ellsberg "bag job" was similar to the illegal activities authorized under an intelligence plan that Nixon admits had his approval briefly in 1970. Dean said that as White House counsel, he never saw firm evidence that the plan had, in fact, been rescinded...
...still hard work. When you pack your sleeping bag, foam mattress, tent, change of clothes, food and utensils, you end up carrying 40 lbs. or more. Lugging that load 15 miles a day in rough country is a guaranteed antidote to the dangers of the soft city life...