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...flick had a plot. (Well, sort of a plot.) In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mr. Hip, a rich, chic, handsome man in gold Cadillac convertible, picks up two nubile young girls hitchhiking on the road. They ride with him to the end of his driveway and then depart. Well, they don't really depart, because they come back just at dinnertime and drop in. "I told you I had a groovy house," Mr. Hip tells them. "Yeah," they respond. Well, one thing leads to another, and before you can say "statutory rape" the Mr. Hip has screwed...
...fact, complaining is enhanced by a touch of imagination. The late Saul Alinsky was a master of the technique. He had his minions dump garbage on the driveway of a Chicago alderman who had refused to support improved sanitation in the northwest district and deposited dead rats on the step of Chicago city hall to dramatize the infestation of the Woodlawn neighborhood. One Eddie Campos, a plasterer from Whittier, Calif. (Nixon's home town), bought him self a $10,300 Lincoln. The ignition fell out, the air conditioning failed, the front end waggled. One day Campos took the Lincoln...
...lets the story proceed, except for a minor lapse when the camera jazzily sweeps over Vivian's face again and again. There are some good moments of visual humor--Ruby's feet descending a staircase, Ruby's great big bus and Earl's tiny sports car leaving the driveway of the nightclub simultaneously, and a few parodies of romantic absurdities like those in A Man and a Woman...
...attack on convention. It is the story of young Harriman Monroe, who lives in Dream of Pines, La., a little bit of Southern heaven stripped of its timber by a few paper companies. It is a place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo...
...situation as I understand it was that the driveway was used both by these owners (the Ugalis), and the owners of the Harvard property," Steiner said. "We had planned to put some plantings there...