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POLITICAL RALLIES AT HARVARD have run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. Three winters ago, for example, a crowd 1000-strong braved the bitter cold to protest President Carter's reinstatement of draft registration. But, in the midst of a freak snow storm last spring, only about 100 people decried the Reagan Administration's cuts in financial aid to students...
Lyrical eloquence is only half the story on It's Hard. The music itself assaults, shakes and ultimately hooks the listener. The Who still prominently feature power chord guitar riffs, but Townshend has begun to rely more heavily on subtle synthesizer bits for counter point. Stylistically, he runs the gamut here from hard rock to devastating funk and '60s rock n' roll...
While the Irish have lots of spice in their speech, their cuisine runs a rather bland gamut from stews to stout. In a tradition-jarring step, however, Lawry's Foods of Los Angeles has opened a taco and tostado plant in Dublin...
While the characters are shallow, everything else reeks of over-kill. The sex scenes are unnecessarily explicit, and Schrader revels in giving us the gamut on perversion from bestiality and incest to kink and sado-masochism. Schrader also isn't much interested in generating suspense. When Irena suddenly wanders through a surreal Cajun bayou, the audience is too confused to be worried. Occasionally Schrader resorts to the cheap device of startling the viewer--something appears suddenly or moves when it shouldn't. All in all, Cat People is as imaginative as coitus interruptus--and about as subtle...
Years ago, Dorothy Parker made an accurate analysis of Hepburn's acting ability: "She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B." Today she has trouble getting beyond A. Fonda has been able to avoid her until now; he too must be slowing down...