Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little Red Riding Hood who looks only at the nightcap and thinks that it's her grandmother," says Italy's urbane Premier Giulio Andreotti. "But at the same time, I am not so reckless as to throw oil on the fire and ruin everything." Metaphorical mixture aside, such political caution and practicality explain how Christian Democrat Andreotti, 57, has managed for the past four months to keep a weak one-party government in power, primarily propped up by the "benevolent abstention" in Parliament of a strong Communist Party...
...Yugoslavs. At an official dinner at the Federal Executive Council Building, Brezhnev ridiculed as "fairy tales" the widespread fears that Moscow would attempt to interfere in Yugoslav affairs after the 84-year-old Tito dies. Brezhnev also belittled the notion that Yugoslavia is "some poor helpless Little Red Riding Hood that the terrible bloodthirsty wolf-the aggressive Soviet Union-is preparing to tear apart and devour...
...seen his son in three years. Carroll puts up in a rented house supplied by a real estate woman (Sally Kellerman), who also sends along a young maid (Sissy Spacek) with a disposition for topless housecleaning. The maid has a thing going with a man named Hood (Harvey Keitel), who works for the elder Barber. Hood's wife Karen (Geraldine Chaplin), given to coughing fits in imitation of Camille, starts a thwarted affair with Carroll. All of these intimacies are recorded by a photographer named Nona (Lauren Hutton), who excels at taking pictures of corners. "Makes sense...
Tracing Routes. It all makes a sort of angular La Ronde, a slightly cynical, increasingly desperate comedy. For all the interrelationships and coincidences, none of the people here can make connection with one another. Some, like Karen Hood, have even given up trying. She spends her days attending matinees in empty movie theaters, or cruising around in taxis, keeping careful record of their numbers and tracing their routes...
...city is a deciever. In its depths anonymity is enjoyed. But Hood, running to the country, tells Murf that when the new family gets there they will only, "Smoke and tell lies." People cannot live without theater, Theroux's novel teaches. The fault lies not in our cities, but in ourselves...