Word: marlis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan and the Soviet Union. Kostelanetz first got the idea for the composition by listening to Songs of the Humpback Whale, a recent recording made by Rockefeller University Biologist Dr. Roger Payne and Acoustics Engineer Frank Watlington of Columbia University, and issued by Communications Research Machines Inc. of Del Mar, Calif. The record is part of a growing program initiated by the New York Zoological Society and designed to stir public interest in saving whales from extinction. Says Hovhaness: "We've got to preserve everything we can on this planet. It's God's own little spaceship...
Actually, the chances of any candidate's carrying one big state by a huge mar gin and losing all the others by small ones are tiny indeed...
...images that do work suggest the direction the film should have taken. The first few shots of a nude wrestling match between Birken and Gerald, deep, low-angle, lit by a darkly golden fire. are quite eerie in their implications. (Although, the inevitable pulsing soundtrack and tumultuous camerawork mar the development of the scene.) A shot of a drowned girl, entwined in the arms of her dead lover, as they are washed up onto a muddy shore is equally effective. (Although, it is mistakenly intercut with shots of Birken and Ursula making love. Properly, the omen is directed at Gerald...
...thrived on high wit, low morals and ice-cold hearts. But by Farquhar's day, the twin corrupters of that comedy lurked in the wings-virtue, which would bar both wit and lechery from the stage, and romance, which would open the sluices of sentimentality. Traces of this mar Farquhar's last play, The Beaux' Stratagem...
...dark America the film shows is staggering in impact. In fact, the whole thing is so claustrophobically seedy that one cannot help but hate and love the film at the same time. An unfortunate ending and about five minutes of execrable dialogue about the point-of-it-all mar the work-but the rest of the movie makes it easy to forgive the mistakes. The director is Sydney Pollack. Jane Fonda, hard as nails, and Gig Young, con man par excellence, give devastating performances...