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...umpteenth time: Nashville comes as close to breakthrough as a film can these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine's rakish advances. Both Geraldine Chaplin and Shelley Duvall are wasted in limiting characters that...
...narrator's voice lingers, hurries, skips, stretches and yawns. In a similar peripatetic fashion, three screens hung above the stage project slides of clippings from a 1923 magazine, echoing in an offhanded and unobtrusive way images and objects mentioned in the poem, while two huge panels of spotlights blink lazily like cows into gorgeous rainbow colors in rhythm to the music and words...
...Carter, not only do shoes pinch but sugar has soured and television sets are on the blink. Protectionists are demanding higher tariffs to help these and other American products. Since 1968 foreign shoe manufacturers have increased their share of the U.S. market from 22% to 46%; during that time, 300 American shoe factories have closed, with the grim loss of 70,000 jobs. Foreign color-TV sets-made mostly in Japan, Taiwan and Korea -accounted for 18% of U.S. sales in 1975; they surged to 42% last year. With sugar imports pushing the price down to 120 per lb., domestic...
Nice place, we thought. Big, kind of pretty, loud music, light-up dance floor (blinkety-blink, strobety-strobe), ten-cent beers, 25-cent drinks (OK, only on Wednesdays), and clean-looking people. Disco music--lotsa bass (thump-thump...
...notes. Works by European and local Boston-area directors are included. Most of the works run under ten minutes. The shortest, All in a Woman's Day and Success Without College, by two Hampshire College students, are pithy visual epigrams that last not much longer than it takes to blink...