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...that album like "Five Years," leaving on the rock riffs and self-consciously-confused lyrics. The sound quality will strike fans of the vinyl Bowie as poor; his lushly-produced effects get stripped down to what a seven-man band can handle on stage. Bowie's vocal machinations, so clever and startling out of the studio, lose some of their sparkle when forced to follow one another in sequence. The side has a nightclub feel, like a good band at Jack's going through some of Bowie's old hits. Bowie doesn't even take a beat between each song...
...outline of Billy Hayes' true story -he is an American youth who escaped a Turkish jail after he was caught carrying hashish in Istanbul-suggests the possibility of a familiar kind of genre film. Clever and desperate prisoners concocting elaborate escape plans, fooling their dense and brutal warders, finally making it to freedom despite the odds -that sort of nonsense, escapist entertainment in the most literal sense of the term. Indeed, the promotion for this film encourages such expectations...
...Anglo-American effort is resumed, Nyerere cautioned, the U.S. and Britain must not underestimate the wiliness of the Rhodesian Prime Minister. Said Nyerere: "Everyone who has assumed that Smith is a fool, Smith has taken in. [Prime Minister Harold] Wilson tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed. [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed too. Don't try to be clever with Smith. Deal with him on the ground he has chosen: power. Gather power and overthrow him." Then, as the warm winds ruffled the coconut palms at his ocean...
...founder-president of the National Jogging Association, I was greatly entertained by Frank Trippett's clever and amusing Essay, "Running a Good Thing into the Ground" [Sept. 11]. However, please tell Mr. Trippett that we joggers will just keep jogging along in the knowledge that we are doing ourselves and our country a service by reducing the cost of health care through our own do-it-yourself health-maintenance programs...
Mamet was clever to juxtapose these two plays: one drama answers the dilemmas of the other in a very sober and natural way, and George and Emil (Jerry Gershman and Ted Kazanoff) interact like a violin duet, weaving the problems of the evening and life into some simple sense...