Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual customer at Dallas International Bank might be forgiven for thinking he had stumbled onto the set of a western movie. In the lobby, men stalked about brandishing shotguns and fistfuls of ammunition. But instead of taking money out, they were putting it in. The bank was giving away shotguns to anyone taking out a 21-year certificate of deposit...
...sources of humor undeveloped. The teach-in scene is a good example. It's full of sound and fury, but has to its credit only one sustained joke. (Nixon, told that the stage will be stormed with the first lie he tells, is struck speechless.) And the show's casual direction doesn't help any. A review should move fast and furious, blackouts should be punchy, and some traveling music never hurts, but Nixon!'s blackouts are more like periodic sessions of silent meditation...
Norton is especially good at conveying the casual desperation of someone scuffling along the fringes of show biz, biding his time and hoping for a break. Some of his scenes have the unhurried air of good improvisation. Others are burdened by some awfully thick dialogue. At one point, Cisco's girl (Karen Black) demands, "It's me or dealing; make up your mind...
Richard Brautigan sounds continually like a low-key Buddy Glass oriented to Big Sur rather than New York City. The stories in this book could be entries into a hip, West Coast Buddy's journal. They both have that funny way of describing the commonplace, and they give casual gestures the liveliness of dialogue. The two narrators share the same fanciful tone and Brautigan can go far with his fancy...
...those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque. An earnest revival preacher loses his audience after a child asks to have his mother cured of a hangover. There are ugly girls with names like Glynese or Carramae and crones like Mrs. Freeman of Good Country People, who "beside the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone had two others, forward and reverse...