Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Therefore, the idea of an anachronistic demi-rock opera starring demi-pop Star Roger Daltrey as Liszt has a certain cheeky appeal. The possibilities for gaining some fresh perspectives on popular culture, past and present, seem worth the risk of affronting our conventional biographical expectations. For a few minutes early in the film, when Director Russell presents a Liszt recital as if it were indeed a rock event, the experiment justifies itself. Poor old Franz becomes a hugely comic figure as he tries to satisfy the demands of his groupies (they want him to play his hit, Chopsticks), his conscience...
While his bruises were still achingly fresh, the champ threatened once more to retire from the ring; a groggy Frazier, clutching his pride, refused to quit. Whether either man will live up to those first postfight statements remains to be seen, but there was no doubt that the fight itself was the best each boxer had fought since that epic brawl in 1971 when then Champion Frazier won a 15-round decision against Ali, inflicting a rare knockdown in the process...
Meanwhile, the FBI was evaluating new leads that might link Patty to other crimes. The fresh evidence was found in the San Francisco apartment occupied by Patty and Wendy Yoshimura, 32, a traveling companion, when they were seized. Another mother lode of material was discovered in the dwelling of William and Emily Harris, members of the S.L.A. who had traveled with Patty. FBI laboratories are examining firearms, ammunition, explosives, documents, telephone numbers, addresses, notes scrawled on scraps of paper and radical literature retrieved from the two apartments. "The stack of stuff is four feet high," reports one agent. "Checking...
...confiscated material led investigators to suspect that the S.L.A. financed its activities by staging bank robberies. As a result, the agency has opened fresh investigations of a score of unsolved bank robberies in California in the past 17 months. The FBI has already linked Patty or her companions to two jobs. On Feb. 25, the Guild Savings & Loan Association in Sacramento was robbed of $3,700. Authorities say that the apparent leader of the holdup was a man described as resembling Bill Harris. The driver of the getaway car was a young woman. Going through the material found...
...STORY MIGHT READ BETTER as a novel, opening as it does with a scene that Sinclair Lewis would have loved: the meeting of the University of California Board of Regents, fresh from mint juleps at San Francisco's Bohemian and Pacific Union Clubs, with at least 10 millionaires out of 24 discussing whether they should raise tuition by a total of $4 million for the 1971-72 academic year. The scene is jolly--the men are "radiant as ten suns." Lewis might have said--and the tuition increase in passed. These men, and two women, don't worry about students...