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...from down the coast come to visit in the summer. Rather than violence, their drinking seems to invoke depression for the most part. Drunken men wander up and down the boardwalk in front of the single row of houses, singing, wailing and tapping on window panes in search of companionship. They are simply ignored. One evening, from our broken picture window, we watched the sun disappear behind the hills up the river. Suddenly, a drunk man broke the stillness, driving his Skidoo wildly along the muddy riverbank, shouting to himself and to his wife who stood surrounded by children...
...been preparing to hail David as a conquering hero. But when Kunst reached Nebraska last month, he began denouncing them to newsmen for their "hypocrisy, pettiness, self-righteousness and narrow-mindedness." The townsfolk have also been offended by his announcements that he often enjoyed female companionship along the way and has no intention of resuming his marriage or living in Waseca again. "I'm a social deviate, a radical, even a little crazy," he said recently. "I don't fit into anybody's pattern and I never will...
...away from any outside light, the world becomes reasonable. Inconsistencies vanish; the willingness to solve any problem logically renders all problems solvable. This is a very comforting atmosphere. It seems unfortunate that this room is used more to answer telephone queries about Harvard events than for the help and companionship it is able to offer...
Which is why comparisons to The Sting or to the "camaraderie" movies about male companionship are ill-drawn. Altman may be trying to recover from the disaster of Thieves Like Us (his advertising got pulled) by making a sure-fire picture that will fund his "own" movie in Nashville, but with a few exceptions California Split is not a cheap turn-on picture. It's just a muted, funny movie that is very close to American life, and to call it empty would be like calling life empty--a moot point...
Normally, the two Nixon girls lunched with their mother when they were in the White House, providing her with the only real companionship she had; in recent months Julie and Tricia saw to it that at least one of them was around to keep Mrs. Nixon company. But last Wednesday was no normal day. Joined by her husband Edward, who had hastily flown down from New York City, Tricia Nixon Cox dined in the pink and white suite that was hers before her marriage. Julie Nixon Eisenhower lunched with her husband David in the third-floor solarium, overlooking the Mall...