Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mixed the tender and the funereal into a weltschmertz as heady as any German musician has ever brewed. These are songs that use familiar sounds--the sagging languor of a torch-song, the steady intensity of an army march--to put the listener off-guard and then knock him flat with cynical or black-humorous lyrics. "Marathon" goes on a careless, accelerating dance through the 20th century, nostalgically stopping at favorite decades, until the abrupt, eschatological ending puts a stop to the singing, the dancing and the music. "Carousel" sets lyrics of childish innocence about carnivals, and ferris wheels...
What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...
Harvard's Jon Hollingsworth then fumbled on the first play after the kickoff at the Harvard 28. On Brown's third down, at the 29, Carbone threw to Mitch Metz--all alone in the flat after his defender fell down--who ran from the 15 to the end zone for the second touchdown...
...result: lower production and more unemployment. Says a State Department specialist in Turkish affairs: "We just hope that whatever the next government may be, it will stick to the terms of the IMF deal and not deviate from the international strategy for recovery. Otherwise, Turkey could become a flat-out disaster case...
Whatever the flat, inexplicable charms Gilmore may have possessed, his mother probably knew him best. She says she knew when Gary was three years old that he would end up being executed. -Lance Morrow