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Next there is an intellectual (Laurence Luckinbill) who, in a fury of last-minute creativity, is working on bits of poems and novels. He has a homosexual lover (Mandy Patinkin) who is desolated, and a stand-up lush of an ex-wife (Patricia Elliott) whose sassy words rain mockery on all. Finally there is a cranky old biddy (Geraldine Fitzgerald) who will not go gently into any night. Her slavishly devoted daughter (Rose Gregorio) fears that all meaning in her own life will slip away with her mother...
...From the lush San Joaquin Valley in California to the Rocky Mountains, much of the West is suffering from severe drought. Worst hit is California, where the lack of significant rainfall since the autumn of 1975 cost farmers and ranchers an estimated $437 million last year, and snowless ski resorts have lost $7 million so far this season...
...Palma again-this time in a romantic mood. The story of a man given a chance to reclaim a love he thought irretrievably lost and to expiate a dreadful guilt-strains credulity. But the director's fluid technique and his gift for ravishing imagery-underscored by the lush music of the late Bernard Herrmann-sweep aside any tendency to disbelieve...
...Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious, virtuosic, imbued with an exceptional inner calm...
...realty, he plans to appeal to foreign buyers. He hopes eventually to open a branch office in Europe. What German industrialists, Greek shipowners and perhaps oil sheiks want, he believes, might just be a trout farm nestling in California's Lassen National Forest, a fly-in ranch in lush green Montana or a splendid 240-acre swamp in Florida...