Word: gorgeousity
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...undergraduate days to their adulterous 40s. Nichols opens with a series of kinetically hilarious sketches, starring Campus Smoothie Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and his pre-med buddy Sandy (Arthur Garfunkel). Cinematically, Nichols has never been less tricky or more acute. With dazzling focus he watches Sandy light upon an icily gorgeous WASP named Susan (Candice Bergen). The naif spills every intimate detail to his roommate; with metronomic two-timing, Jonathan moves in on Sandy and with Susan. But the Ivy rake has only one real amour: the mirror. Eventually he abandons Susan to Sandy, who marries her and lives happily never...
...thorough bore throughout, and the only part I really enjoyed was when I had a short nap. There is no fault to be found with the cast, but the play itself, the plot, the dreary scenery, the monotonous songs and the tinsely imitation of Ziegfeld's gorgeous costumes are not to be believed...
...bestseller, Trout Fishing In America, or In Watermelon Sugar (1968), which were not so much novels as paper bags full of disassociated whimsy. By contrast, The Abortion has a real story. The heroine is Vida, who brings a manuscript to the library one night. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The hero makes her feel comfortable. They live together in the back of the library, and she bakes chocolate cookies, which the hero gives to old ladies who bring manuscripts at three in the morning. It is all very pleasant. Then Vida gets pregnant...
...targets, like nonnutritious foods and misleading labeling, but his humor and attack are much too forced and fevered. Another promising idea, Studs Terkel's talk show with real people instead of talk-show people, is mostly wind. Last week, though, Terkel's regular hardhat got off a gorgeous line about how his American dream was to own a bowling alley-with Arthur Schlesinger and Gore "Videll" (as he pronounced it) as pin boys...
...General South must be kidding. Does he honestly find something tragic in a lot of "crummy, small highways" [Jan. 11]? I found the roads perfectly maintained and the scenery gorgeous...