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...they do not pertain to the "real" world. Samaras brings such contradictions to an excruciating pitch by, among other devices, his use of color-brilliant loops and stripes of rainbow-dyed wool, confetti patterns of dots and painted flecks, drawerfuls of costume-jewelry sequins, crusts of rhinestone and glitter...
Sidney Furie's directing compensates somewhat for this casting problem, especially when he uses black and white photographic montage: The images tone down Ross's star quality and, without the glitter, she makes a much more realistic Holliday. They serve another purpose by presenting the valleys of the singer's career in an effective, but not banal manner. Her rigorous prison sentence is portrayed by a few still photographs accompanied by a voice-over of Ross singing "Lady Sings the Blues." No acting could have been as moving...
Prague is beginning to glitter again after a massive campaign to restore and regild its splendid baroque churches and monuments. Its shop windows are filled with consumer goods imported from the capitalist West as well as from the Communist East. No fewer than 7,000,000 tourists from East Germany and other Soviet-bloc countries swarmed into Czechoslovakia this year in pursuit of luxuries not readily available at home. These include Spanish bananas and oranges, Italian shoes, Camembert cheese and Beaujolais from France, and Czechoslovak brassières and girdles that, at long last, are beginning to encase Russian...
...everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others appear in full drag-flowing scarves, high-heeled wedgies, false eyelashes, mascara, lipstick and cheek-clinging glitter. With the revolt long since gone out of the music, what is left is really a new kind of vaudeville or sometimes a freak show-occasionally first-rate, frequently diverting, but too often merely repulsive. Items...
...conspicuous lack of pomp. No parades will march up the Champs-Elysées; no balls will be held at Versailles; there will be nothing to equal the splendor the French lavished within the past year on the visits of Leonid Brezhnev and Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the only glitter will come from a modest gala in the Elysée Palace's gilt-and-tapestry Salle des Fêtes on Thursday night...