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When Susan Traherne (Kate Nelligan) was 17, she served as a courier with the French Resistance. It struck a harmonic chord of valor that haunts her during the rest of her frustrating life. In flashbacks and flashforwards, Plenty ranges from World War II through the '50s and '60s. Back in London, Susan blurs into the social canvas, drifting in and out of jobs, romances, causes, too self-indulgent and too undisciplined to harness her energies to her high self-expectations...
YOUR PARENTS can probably tell you precisely where they were and what they were doing when the news of John Kennedy's as assignation reached them. The murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King strike a similar chord. These men had a particular quality that made them a part--however intangible--of people's lives Perhaps it came from shared causes and ideas, or simply grew out of the cult of personality. Regardless, their tragic deaths were greeted with the kind of heartfelt grief usually reserved for the loss of a family member...
...accoutrements to the plot strike a visual chord. The costumes are exquisite, as are the wigs, the arrays of food, and the furnishings of the houses. Ranging from magnificent gardens to bleak deserts, director Carlos Diegues assaults us with a barrage of kaleidoscopic images. Even though these images never stop, no saturation point exists. Our eyes gladly devour these gorgeous pictures that affirm the gaudiness and materialism of Tijuco...
Lyrical eloquence is only half the story on It's Hard. The music itself assaults, shakes and ultimately hooks the listener. The Who still prominently feature power chord guitar riffs, but Townshend has begun to rely more heavily on subtle synthesizer bits for counter point. Stylistically, he runs the gamut here from hard rock to devastating funk and '60s rock n' roll...
...exactly. The focus of the Carnegie Hall audience's turmoil was Steve Reich's Four Organs, a deceptively simple, 24-minute work for four electric organs and maracas whose musical substance is but a single six-note chord repeated insistently in varying patterns. In 1973, when Four Organs was performed in New York City by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Reich's style of music, called minimalism, was hardly known outside a few SoHo lofts...