Word: hick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After jumping out to a 3-0 start, the Crimson has dropped three straight decisions, the latest to the University of Massachusetts, 76-50, last night at Curry Hick's Cage in Amherst...
...where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld, but he ends up wearing punk costumes and too much mascara. The picture in turn is plastered over with a heavy layer of intellectual pancake. It is all pretense and portent up to a wild shoot...
...done some of his hatchet work on the script. A film of this dubious caliber should not try to hold an audience's attention for longer than an hour-and-a-half. So there's about an extra half hour of wandering around in the desert, getting chased by hick cops who all look the same, or watching Hauer do his imitation of The Thing That Wouldn't Die in Hitcher. Some editing could have been done, perhaps enough to make this an MTV video...
...nostril. After the ear has become accustomed, though, this collection of previously released material, a plethora of political and personal tales of woe, really hits home. "A New England" achieves both the humor and sadness of early Dylan. After all, if the world could grow to love a nasally hick from Hibbing, Minnesota, then why not a congested Cockney from an English mining town...
...belongs to this classic, filmed at the Salzburg Festival and released in 1962. The cast is the cream of central Europe at the time: Schwarzkopf, regal but warm in what was her greatest role; Jurinac, an ardent youthful swain; Rothenberger, silvery voiced and breathtakingly beautiful; and Edelmann, a bumptious hick from the sticks. Karajan's mastery of the score so gloriously displayed on his 1957 Angel recording with Schwarzkopf is evident in every energized...