Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue-eyed All-America baseball hero, golden, graceful and uncomplicated. Julian Weston is a maggot-pale homosexual prostitute, strung out like a taut wire between self-inflicted denigration and a yearning for clean, well-lighted love. What these totally disparate characters-the one in John Hancock's film Bang the Drum Slowly, the other in English Playwright John Hopkins' Broadway drama Find Your Way Home -have in common is the very uncommon talent of Actor Michael Moriarty, who plays them both. With the release of the film in August and the opening of the play last month, Moriarty...
...campaign aides, an insurance salesman named Seymour Terry, the sort of nuts-and-bolts politico New York newspapers generally label "a veteran of the West Side political wars," started Beame's administration off with a bang. Terry sent a letter to his insurance customers informing them that his new position as the city's director of special programs would undoubtedly mean "even greater benefits" for them than they'd had in the past. When The New York Times published the letter, Terry acknowledged that it had been poorly worded. Beame asked Terry to resign. That was only the beginning...
...tight lid on your ability to think or feel. It won't let you get close enough to care about it--it is always on the attack. Little Regan just gets filthier and filthier and when she's exorcized the movie has to end because it took all its bang from the fake effects Regan gets so foul that you go home feeling laundered like a golden girl. You also feel laundered in muck. People must be hard up for highs, or bored, or both...
...Bang the Drum Slowly...
...Paris) and the sensation-mongers (The Exorcist), the uppers (Happy New Year) and the downers (Slither), the hype-mades (The Long Goodbye), the homemades (Joyce at 34) and the readymades (Paper Moon and The Paper Chase--real paste-up jobs), the libbers (A Doll's House), the lobbers (Bang the Drum Slowly), and the cops and robbers movies playing red-light green-light with the good-guy hot seat--clearly the list eludes an all-embracing label...