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...schoolroom, masturbation contests in a car, an encounter with a fat, aging woman with enormous breasts. There are asides (Titta's grandfather lost in the fog and thinking himself dead), bits of local color (practically the whole town moving out of the harbor in small boats to cheer a new ocean liner). Under all, there is a steady stream of events that do not change: a family death, a wedding...
...plenty of support. The nine guests she interviewed on the subject of "Public People, Private Lives" included such old friends as Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale, Dollie Cole and California Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. The audience had its own all-in-the-family touch. Among those who came to cheer Julie on were Josephine Abplanalp, whose aerosol millionaire husband Robert is one of Richard Nixon's most loyal backers, and Mrs. Howard Ellis Cox, Sister Tricia's mother...
...against Zeyer's dreadful, sad old dog, Mr. Pastry, and to convince Shorty that his bladder is ruined. A Christmas dinner scene, with bored and horrified younger generations present, is a comic masterpiece in which petty ferocity, mostly masked in genteel dialogue, shatters attempts at kindness and good cheer...
...like The Dirty Dozen, fills the sound track with the crunch of every bone, the sight track with every splat of blood he can manage-terrible stuff, but viscerally stimulating. In a simple-minded way, it is also very effective, literally capable of making an audience stand up and cheer just as if they were in the stands at a real game...
...increase by between 13% and 18% for the year and help soften any recession, had risen by a modest 6.5% through the first half. General Motors Chairman Richard C. Gerstenberg predicted a mere 5% sales gain for the auto industry in the 1975-model year beginning this month-cold cheer, since 1974-model sales were disastrously...