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...knight in a chess game, check, check, check. But in fact the checkerboard is a great swarm, with no one heading anywhere. Moseby hasn't got a chance of wrestling this free-for-all into the neat conformity he likes: once his blocks are set up, the whole construct just tumbles down again...
...Italians, Czechs, Jews, Negroes and many others-were willy-nilly committed to a common search in a strange land. How to make a riving and a new life? How to clear the wilderness and get crops to grow? How to lay roads, dig canals and build cities? How to construct and organize factories, to find customers, and to begin to trade profitably with the rest of the world? Out of this variegated common search came a nation...
...Palm Court, when he saw Margaux, who was in town for a skiing promotion gig. Their eyes locked. They have been in love ever since, and when Margaux arrived in New York last fall, they pooled their resources, rented a grungy Upper East Side pad and settled down to construct the Big Deal. Frequent reassuring trips to the Palm Court were necessary. "If things began to cave in or if we were confused, we would rush over there, sit at a table, and suddenly things became clearer," says Errol. Margaux says, "Errol has horns but he's an angel...
...movie is a honky-tonk panorama of contemporary America and most of its obvious contradictions: a flagrant, nearly frenzied, workaday energy and a kind of moral deadness; a proud regard for history and heritage and an abiding need to construct a synthetic mythology; a sweeping national certitude and the hypocrisy that comes with it. Altman is fearless in his thematic ambitions for Nashville, and it is a good measure of his success that the movie is always fleet and supple, never top-heavy. The director and his talented collaborator Joan Tewkesbury (who also did the screenplay for Altman...
...leaves it open to easy attack. But with both banks now under Egyptian control. President Anwar Sadat gambled that he could open it again. To underscore his seriousness, Sadat also approved a $10 billion five-year plan to rebuild the ruined cities along the canal's banks and construct new airports, rail lines and communications facilities in the area...