Word: barroomful
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...also a dollmaker whose work even the Times has stopped to review. I Fogarty hates priests, quarrels with an incomplete slob of a white and lives with a Manhattan bound groupte cum socialite Generally boisterous and malcontent Fogarty has only two bright sports amidst the soiled sheets and barroom props that upholster his life his son and his sex. His relationship to these the sole objects his reserence, is the main drift of the stors...
...horns building beautifully upon his musical themes, Simon produces a forceful sound surpassing any of the mechanical blends of trumpets and gravelly singing that pass for jazz on the AM Top Ten. The style ranges from honky-tonk, to Gershwinian melancholy, to high-energy, upbeat popular jazz, to barroom bluesiness more reminiscent of Simon's earlier songs...
...bears partial responsibility for writing this lackluster plot, although as a director he fares a good deal better. Unlike most fledgling film makers, Ihnat has an uninsistent and subtle style. He can catch the fleeting mood of a scene in a few shots, most impressively in a terse, brutal barroom brawl, and he has a good eye for local color. A ro deo parade down the main street of Carlsbad, N. Mex., is rendered faith fully and affectionately, complete with floats, officials waving smugly, three different kinds of bands (country, Mexican, rock) and a farmer's pickup truck bearing...
...momentary. "What has to be done is going to be done," he reassures his wife, who has begun to doubt his resolve. And at the end, as British troops approach the town, Jepsen digs trenches and waits, performing a grotesque masquerade extracted from World War I movies and barroom battle tales...
Like many a Texas barroom brawl, the fight between a Viet Nam veteran and a friend in the Panhandle town of Phillips was ostensibly over a girl. But by the time it ended, the friend lay dead of seven gunshot wounds. The veteran, a former Green Beret, dazed and thinking he had just killed an attacking Viet Cong, was stripping the body so that it could not be rigged with booby traps...