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...Society. Flanagan's lawyer claims that his client is an absentee owner who "wouldn't know how to operate a mortuary." Yet Millionaire Flanagan seemed to know plenty about the business's bottom line. In 1961 he was convicted of grossly overcharging the Veterans Administration for frill-free funerals. He was sentenced to two years in jail and served seven months...
Rauch's interpretation succeeds in generalizing Yerma's dilemma into a cross-cultural experience. Rauch tones down the Spanish influences until there are only subtle suggestions of it in the delicate frill of a classical guitar and the fringed shawl that Yerma drapes over her head. And in this he excels; the villagers could belong to any village. Juan's possessive sisters to any brother and Yerma's pain to any women...
...Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing to the movie's bitterer tones rather than becoming a self-indulgent frill. Somehow, the energy is gone and a generation is left to cope, without anything to do or anywhere...
...Giuliano, an administrator in the district, believes that exposure to computers is vital for otherwise underprivileged children: "They are starting behind in basic literacy. Let's not let them get behind in computer literacy." Such logic still fails to persuade some educational administrators. "They see computers as a frill," Giuliano notes, "and we see them as the child's future...
...think this is a necessity, not a frill in somebody's budget," said Elizabeth Levy, a member of the Massachusetts Health Care Coalition. But Docouto said, "It all comes down to money...