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Charulata and Bhupati are a childless couple, entering their thirties in Calcutta of the 1880's. Offspring carry special importance in the Indian tradition, and Bhupati attempts to drown his frustration in overdevotion to a liberal newspaper he has founded. Charulata would like to write poetry, but is prevented by the constrictions placed on women in Indian society...
...Dally's lover is a healthy clod, her taxi-driver husband (Ralph Meeker) is a wounded, raging animal who empties bottles and smashes chairs- because it one accepts Playwright Hanley's shaky psychologizing, he let his three-year-old son drown years before. Mrs. Dally tries to put a think-tank in this poor tiger but he is properly mystified by a wifely oracle who is as daft as she is Delphic: "I think a lot of people could be great people...
...natural link in and continuator of the great tradition of German expressionism. Outwardly at least, his impetuosity has somewhat subsided. The neighbors in his six-story walkup on a truck-choked thoroughfare in Karlsruhe are often treated to blasts of rock 'n' roll he plays to drown out the traffic noise. But outside his studio stand two British perambulators, quiet symbols of the treasured domesticity with his wife and two children into which he retreats to work on a dozen canvases at once. There, with vehemence, he paints an image of man as timeless as Stonehenge, as topical...
...unsentimental love and social protest. Its king: Bob Dylan, who leaves behind the straight-haired purists of folk as he takes up electric guitar. He and his imitators are bringing the message right into the front seat of the convertible, although it is still not strong enough to drown out the we're-not-too-young-to-get-married gang...
...Foot. But the performers willing and able to play along drown in the gravy. Among the kings of the circuit this year are Gunsmoke's Ken (Festus) Curtis and Milburn (Doc) Stone, who drew 225,000 fans in a week at Billings, Mont. (pop. 62,000) and, at the Kitsap County (Wash.) Fair-with the local impresario's job riding on the outcome-doubled the best previous gross. "We'll be singing and jawing at each other and having a time as big as my foot," announces Festus as they reach each town. Which means declining nary...