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...never been matched by any subsequent film chronicling the events of a music concert, rock or otherwise. Never has a three-hour chunk of celluloid flown by so quickly in recent memory, and I include the Godfather epics in that statement. Joan Baez' rendition of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" usually elicits a few catcalls from the rowdies who always show up for a showing of Woodstock, but the film hasn't another rough spot in it. And the concluding ten minutes prove byond any remaining shadow of a doubt that Hendrix does indeed live...
...CHARIOT OF FIRE...
Thus British Historian E.E.Y. Hales sets the stage for an engaging theological fantasy that would have done credit to the late Anglican author C.S. Lewis. Like Lewis' Great Divorce and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan section of Man and Superman, Chariot of Fire suggests that hell is what one makes of it -and so is heaven...
Brock suddenly becomes the indispensable man in the middle. Satan needs the Limbo Line to transport cannon across the bottomless mud of the gluttons' Third Circle. The archangel Michael, ready to wage another Miltonic war against Satan, needs the railroad to carry his chariot of fire across the same...
...They may oppose direct elections to a European parliament and object to ratifying the International Monetary Fund accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these skirmishes, the two men are, in the words of Historian Chariot, "condemned to get along." Chirac told Wierzynski, "I will not flail in all directions in an irresponsible manner. So long as there is no major change in the policies of France, so long as I am in the majority, I have no intention of provoking a crisis...