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Altman riddles the movie with moments like this, keeping viewers constantly off balance. He jumps deftly from satire and black comedy to utter seriousness and back again as he introduces new characters. The scenes between Sterling Hayden and Nina van Pallandt (as the drunk, impotent writer and his enigmatic wife) are moving and terrifying. But suddenly, another character enters the picture--one time it's Henry Gibson, playing a creepy little shrink--and the film makes an abrupt, exhilarating shift of gears. Like the rest of the movie, the syrupy musical score can't be taken too seriously...
Corson's premise is that Viet Nam was a psychological disaster, and that Americans have not yet fully registered the trauma. When we do, will we recover -ever? Corson is not optimistic. In words that might have come from Tom Hayden in a somber moment, he writes: "Our final innocence was lost in Viet Nam, and from here on it is likely that those who stand in the way of action deemed necessary for our national security or 'advancement' will be ground up like leaves in a backyard shredder...
...from New York, booked to the gunwales with 1,693 passengers on a three-day comet cruise. Before dawn every morning, passengers were invited to the decks for telescope viewing and comet lectures. In January, when the comet will be visible in the evening sky, New York's Hayden Planetarium is planning an even more elaborate happening: a six-day "Flight of the Comet" aboard a chartered Boeing 747. The tour will feature stopovers at observatories in California and Arizona. There, the participants will be treated to candlelight dinners and lectures while Kohoutek glimmers in the sky. Cost...
...does his own tour of duty taking care of their son, Troy, three months. When the group arrived at Wellesley College for a show, Tom and Troy established themselves behind the front lines: in a church basement. Surprised by a photographer as the family was leaving the campus, Hayden exploded, "You want trouble?" He momentarily raised above his head a threatening object, which turned out to be Troy's bassinet...
...first proposed by Senator Birch Bayh Jr. (D-Ind.) in December 1963, less than a month after the Kennedy assassination. The two men next in line to succeed Johnson, who had been stricken with a heart attack while majority leader in the Senate, were John McCormack and Carl Hayden, both of whom were over 80 years old at the time...