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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...describing growing pessimism among the American electorate. In March, for instance, Caddell found that 48% of the people he surveyed called themselves "longterm pessimists," up from 30% in 1975. Other pollsters question Caddell's objectivity, and stress that Carter is partly responsible for the public gloom. Their surveys find that Americans are more pessimistic about the President than about themselves. Responds Caddell: "To say it is a question of confidence in Carter begs the larger question...
...they have something to talk about: the possibilities of sending Isaac Asimov to Pluto, or the time Mr. Sulu's left ball was shot off by Klingons. It's worse at Dracula conventions: the plastic fangs they wear inhibit conversation, and instead of meeting tall, gaunt, Continental types they find only themselves, or else fat, greasy middle-aged men. The shock of recognition: it's like casting a vampire into the sunlight...
...Exhibition. Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite, 1919 version (Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conductor, Angel). Now that Muti has been appointed to succeed Eugene Ormandy in 1980, listeners will turn to these, his first discs with the orchestra, to see what kind of new leader the Philadelphia has. They will find few conclusive answers. These are unexceptionable performances, clean and firm-if anything, too firm in the emphatic attack in the Beethoven and the clipped chords of the Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. What is missing, and it may be too early to expect it, is a distinctive Muti accent for the orchestra...
...less than a month before its official premiere, Francis Coppola has only now stopped agonizing over how it will all turn out. After three years, $30 million, a typhoon named Olga and a shared Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm for Best Picture, Director Coppola still struggled to find an ending for his Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse Now. Should Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) hack Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) to death and then emerge from the colonel's hideout? Or should Willard kill Kurtz, sail down the river and then order the site bombed into the Stone...
...office receipts. Alterations often come after a preview audience has seen the movie and filled out questionnaires, which are studied by Hollywood executives with the same kind of eager dread White House aides must feel when they pore over the latest Gallup. Even the best and most independent directors find audience reaction helpful: Stanley Kubrick first filmed a wild custard-pie fight between the Americans and the Soviets as a final scene for Dr. Strangelove, but after several previews, he changed his mind and ended the movie with Major "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) riding bronco on the bomb...