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Cold Shower. Bridget Riley's paintings are nearly always made of such a formal unit-dot or stripe or ellipse-repeated and multiplied with tiny changes of position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that...
...perhaps, difficult to forgive these irritating and sometimes tasteless lapses that dot Five Easy Pieces. But it is a testament to the parts of the film that work that they so overpower what is bad. The response this film gets is way out of proportion to the response it deserves; for better or worse, Five Easy Pieces is one of those lucky films that comes along at a time when it can profit largely because of the hyped-up sensibilities of the people who see it rather than those of the people who made...
...other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen-agers flip through album after album. Prostitutes, panhandlers, winos and pickpockets dot the sidewalks. One of New York's most intensive police patrols prods them from one end of Times Square to the other and back again. It is the street where every item is marked discount or clearance...
...problems. But he notes that Strathcona's cutbacks in coal and electricity, plus lack of economic opportunity, promise to reduce the population still further. Soon there may be no more than 70 living people among the countless ghosts. Other islands-Pabbay, Sandray, Taransay, Scarba, Soay, Mingulay, St. Kilda-dot the sea round Colonsay. All were inhabited. Now all are empty...
Sixteen thousand tourists made the 14-minute tour of the birthplace during June. Most of them were Texans, although out-of-state license tags dot the asphalt parking lot. They come to see some history on "a ten-minute stop off the road," and politics are unimportant to a father motioning his kids closer to the historical marker while he peers into the range finder of a camera. "You don't have to be an L.B.J. fan to come here," an Oklahoman explains...