Word: linings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season must believe that they have now arrived at a 20th century equivalent: a late Sunday afternoon on the American open road, the long procession of gas stations relentlessly shut down and the gauge's needle sinking like the setting sun toward Empty. If at last a gas line appears, winding up the road a quarter of a mile to an oasis of heraldic light, the effect is surreal: the machines in their idling file give off an almost animal heat, the drivers waiting inside them feeling anxious, vaguely betrayed (by Detroit, Carter, Schlesinger, OPEC, history) and sometimes alarmingly...
...characters conversing in close-ups). This concept of the film as a juxtaposition of visual events unforcefully related to each other is in accord with the modern tendency in art to conform to an open structure rather than to depend on tight dramatic unity. With such an "indented" narrative line, Manhattan can be seen as a cinematization of Allen's personal diary as opposed to novelization of a film (ironically touched upon in the film with Keaton's involvement in this type of "literary" work...
...federal magistrate last week refused to issue an injunction to halt construction of the 3.2-mile extension of the Red Line subway, indicating that a suit to stop construction until a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is written will fail...
...group called Red Line Alert, composed of businessmen and homeowners who are affected by the construction, is trying to stop the extension on the grounds that the original 1500-page EIS does not adequately warn those affected by the ramifications of the extension...
...Magistrate Laurence Cohen defended the original EIS in a 31-page opinion to U.S. District Court Judge David Nelson, and said the allegations of Red Line Alert are "frivolous" and, in one case, "simply inaccurate...