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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about Robert Altman are his eyes--vivid blue sapphires set deep in a large, slightly ruddy face. Altman looks different in person than he does in photographs; the face is less mephistophelian and more delicate--gentle, almost vulnerable. "I don't have anything to say," he begins, "but I'll answer any questions." His voice is higher than one would expect, viscous and slighly drawly, the vocal equivalent of the corn syrup produced in his native Kansas. For over an hour Altman answers questions from the 30-odd reporters sitting in front of him. He responds patiently and candidly, even...
...flustered by a) the technical problems (the projector belt broke) and b) the obnoxious boneheads in the audience, who asked every conceivable sort of stupid question. ("I'm Joe Blow from B.U., and I'm getting my M.F.A. in theater this year, and I want to know if you'll be needing any apprentices..." Altman: "I won't be needing...
...resigned to spending the rest of the autumn indoors watching professional athletes, then you'll certainly be at Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon to watch the Crimson football team match-up against Cornell in (if you'll excuse me) the battle of the cellar-dwellars. Of course, I've got to point out that Cornell and Harvard, who are currently occupying the bottom two rungs of the Ivy League column after only one game, both sport better overall records than the two co-leaders, Yale and Dartmouth--so there...
...Orpheum on Oct. 16 for two shows, with Rockpile (featuring Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds) as the warm-up group, the ad informs me in small type. If it were up to me, I'd have Rockpile as the starring act. As a matter of fact, you'll have the opportunity to hear them again on Oct. 30 and 31, when they'll be headlining at the Paradise (for $4.50, no less...
Students trained in a language's rhythm "won't be boring and they'll get across" their meaning, he said...