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...Social issues such as consumerism, pollution and abortion generate little interest, and international affairs do not claim much attention from district voters. Black-white relations have been a source of tension in the past; the racial issue lies just below the surface now, an uneasily quiet volcano which could erupt this summer when the District Court makes a decision on busing...
...scientists studying the mountain concede that their activity and reports have proved costly to Concrete. But the Forest Service insists that placing threatened areas off limits makes eminent sense. Mount Baker does not have to awaken fully and erupt in order to be deadly. All the restless giant need do to cause a disaster is to shrug off its snowy and earthen coverings...
...sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly and daring. Brises follow splat falls; dreamy waltzes erupt in staccato spasms of movement. With deadpan wit, 16 girls perform precise glisses while their heads wobble like windup dolls. All at once 30 dancers are onstage, twisting, wiggling, milling about in all directions. It is a Hollywood climax in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, but the heart and humor...
...Gitl can only take so much pain. She grows progressively more despondent over her justifiable suspicions that Jake is still seeing his old girlfriend. Tensions come to a head when he finds his wife with her hair seemingly french-fried in a hapless attempt to imitate American styles. They erupt out of mutual frustration, he hits her, and their scuffle ends several scenes later in an Orthodox Jewish divorce. Jake runs off with his girlfriend, and Gitl makes plans to marry Bernstein...
WATCHING Old Man Boyle is sort of like eavesdropping in Central Park--you hear people saying vague things about their ordinary lives because they don't have anything to do but talk. You listen to a couple of policemen boast; a few words erupt from Old Man Boyle, their senile ward; three crotchety sisters settle on a bench to complete their crossword puzzle; and a wanton woman who might have scrubbed floors in Blooming dale's for 20 years reminisces. Except there's something off-beat about this everyday company. There's a plaintive note in all of their voices...