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...Montanan until you've weathered 40 winters," the saying goes) and steeped in frontier nostalgia. Montanans are closet cowboys in haunting pursuit of the roundup, even while struggling with realities. Democrats vote Republican, Republicans vote Democrat. The naive are suspicious, the shrewd trusting. Together they brew 100-proof populism and partake of it as effortlessly as they drink their bourbon...
...film begins and ends with a set of ripe trumpet arpeggios so full of undefined resonances, comic melancholic, and heroic, that you doubt a film could ever create a heady enough mixture of its own. It does, and the brew is not only heady but true, not only true but important. It makes us feel again, in a modern context, what the wicked have always known: that there is no God, and that the men who rule the earth in his stead are those with the biggest compensating pictures of themselves...
...money is needed to transport the immigrants to Israel by air from Vienna (see box), teach them He brew, and retrain specialists whose Russian skills-dentistry and law, for instance-are inadequate by Israeli standards. New housing must also be provided, since Israel is chronically short of living space...
...case of home brew disappeared long before the concert started...
...marvel of transparent ghosts dancing around a huge hall, to the vulgar ride through darkest Africa, with your guide shooting at rhinos, hippos, and elephants. One can agree with John Ciardi's estimation of the place is seeing the "shyster in the bacroom of illusion, diluting his witches brew with tapwater, while all his gnomes worked frantically to design gaudier and gaudier designs for the mess." Or one an simply realize that all this does cost to great deal, 128 million roughly, pay the fee, and allow images and emotions lying dormant since childhood to make their presence felt once...