Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rented car. We got unlimited mileage in the rental deal, and we had collision insurance, too. Namo grinned when he told me. The people at the rental agency would not have liked his grin. Saturday night we spent driving in a storm, moving south at 75 miles per hour on Interstate 95, through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. As we crossed into Florida, the skies cleared and the sun rose. It was clearly the promised land...
...road again we found a better placebo for our restlessness. Driving on an interstate for more than 24 hours broke down our notions of distance and days. Over such a long distance we could not think of destinations or of schedules, only of driving. Traveling up the East Coast at night in a rented car at 70 miles per hour became a state of being--the hum of the tires, the turning of the passengers asleep in the back seat, the constant mirror check for state police, the dashboard light casting eerie shadows across the driver's face...
...little reason to go into there here, at least at length. But Dylan-watchers are like sinologists--what is the significance of this wall poster, that party member's rehabilitation? And it is my private contention that what Dylan gave us in Renaldo and Clara is the greatest two-hour concert film of all time, spliced together with and wrapped around two hours of sheer garbage...
...focus on the love affair dulls the political statement of Coming Home. The movie starts to lose its grip on you after about the first hour, but it is nevertheless an excellent film. Perhaps its problems lie in the fact that there were too many cooks. Gilbert and Fonda took their original idea to the then untried scenarist Nancy Dowd, who has since won critical acclaim for her original screenplay of Slapshot. Over a year later, Dowd came up with a long, ultimately unusable screenplay. Next they approached Waldo Salt, an Oscar winner for Midnight Cowboy, who ended up writing...
...figured out, and written down a note to myself--four-and-a-half hour bus ride, wake at 8 a.m., leave house at 9, get on 10 a.m. bus and arrive in New York at 12:30. I had successfully completed the first few steps of the program and was confortably ensconsed on the Greyhound when the driver said (at least this one used the P.A. system), "Ten o'clock to New York, arriving Port Authority at 2:20. No smoking...