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...Italian art now. Yet she has tried to suggest the eclecticism of the Italian scene by focusing on its manierismo. Most of the artists are obsessed, one way or another, with pastiche, allegory, narcissistic display, irony and side quotation. They are also inclined to a somewhat dandified and bogus kind of religiosity, which...
...trial unfolded, many Spaniards continued to "wonder just how strong their democracy was. One troubling bit of evi dence is Tejero's popularity with the extreme right wing. His supporters circulate Tejero key rings, Tejero posters and even bogus Tejero bank notes. Ironically, the future of Spanish democracy may again be in the hands of officers: the 16 military judges presiding over the court-martial. A lenient sentence would outrage many Spaniards. But a harsh one could provoke a dangerous right-wing backlash - and possibly even another coup attempt...
Director Richardson is a long way from his old terrain of kitchen sinks (A Taste of Honey) and drawing rooms (Tom Jones). He allows a few implausibilities and submits the viewer to one winsome muchacho too many. But this is still a successful invasion of Peckinpah County, where bogus high life and a quick ugly death too often intersect. The film's mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music. As for Nicholson, he shows again that he can embody...
...best song is the one in which the boys do away with all the bogus brass and instead simply substitute commercial Christmas ideas for the old blond-girls-and-souped-up-cars stuff. "Little Deuce Coupe," "Little St. Nick"--it's just the difference between July and December. Here, for example, is the description of Santa's sleigh...
...Arnstein Jr. withdrew as much as $100,000 at a time from client accounts and funneled it into shadow accounts. Brimberry then reportedly forged records to cover the withdrawals, removed stock certificates from genuine accounts and forwarded them to banks to serve as collateral for further loans to the bogus accounts. Thus the Brimberry cash from the bank loans allegedly fed the private accounts of Brim-berry and his coconspirators...