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...solo album shows his style at its best--lively, competent guitar-playing, light arrangements, gently rocking rhythms, and lyrics whose leanness only sets off more dramatically the appropriateness of his imagery. His songs work because of the feeling behind them; Young is managing to grow old gracefully as a flower child, and his singing about sunshine still never fails to feel warm. Comparing records is unfair, but I am astounded by the hype given to Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina this year, who play in a similar vein but nowhere nearly as well as Young...
...Danang, according to captured documents. When the agreement is broadcast, Communist troops will execute a two-part plan. Some units will make a concerted military assault on the city's police and militia posts. At the same time, other troops will "hang peace flags and lanterns, fly flower-decked balloons and hold unicorn dances [traditional Vietnamese dance at a time of joy], entertainment shows and peace-float processions to create an enthusiastic atmosphere and rally a large number of people. In the event the enemy represses the demonstrators," the directive adds, "we will carry the corpses of the demonstrators...
...Sandbox, the just-released film in which she plays a daydreaming housewife who flirts with Fidel Castro and blows up the Statue of Liberty. Barbra soon changed her mind, accepted the part and went off to Kenya to film one of the daydreams. While there she had a blue flower painted on her cheek, put together her own Samburu tribal costume and sat for a chat with an African and his two wives. "How would you like Barbra as your third wife?" asked one onlooker. The African said nothing but looked apprehensive...
...part of Mao Tse-tung's revival of folk arts, acrobatic troupes were newly subsidized all over China. Today almost every one of China's 18 provinces and each big city has its company in keeping with Mao's cultural exhortations: "Let one hundred blossoms flower." By 1965 acrobats' status had risen so high that they were accused of being too bourgeois, lacking the "class character that would allow them to reflect the everyday struggles of the workers and peasants." Now they spend two months of every year in a factory or commune, working alongside...
...Instead of directing him, Dragoti indulges him. Pollard either mopes or mugs in every scene, and cruelly prolongs every line of dialogue that he cannot swallow entirely. There are some good secondary performances, though: by Charles Aidman as a sort of Babbitt aborning, Lee Purcell as a wilted prairie flower, and Dran Hamilton as Billy's mother. Both women have the same blind strength of will, the same poignant sense of the hopelessness of their characters that transcends the hand-tooled mannerisms of the movie...