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...Powers parish of the '60s and '70s has become a beleaguered sanctuary, attacked on one side by the new breed from the seminary. Carrying guitars, speaking at sensitivity sessions, Powers' young priests yearn to say Mass with a beer mug or a coffee cup. They march to a canting faith that "religion (though not perhaps as we know it) is the coming thing," that "the clergy (though not perhaps as we know them) are the coming men." As if the counterculture crusaders were not cross enough for the old guard to bear, ignoramuses and half believers...
...most of all it will be The Game which will pull me through February. That incredible game. And I'll sit back with my Bosox cap on firmly and my 1967 "The Pennant Is Ours" beer mug frothing and begin the slide show...
...London Gallery Owner Nicholas Treadwell, 37. So, hoping to replace formality with fun, Treadwell asked 29 artists to submit something new in the way of royal portraiture. Last week his West End art gallery displayed the results, which included paintings of Her Majesty sipping tea from a Union Jack mug, holding hands with Henry VIII, rowing a boat and grinning from a heart-shaped valentine of daisies. "I see them as very affectionate portraits, but I don't know how she would see them," said Treadwell, explaining why he did not send the Queen an invitation to his exhibit...
...SCENES are such good vaudeville that they would have worked anywhere. Yet Nichols based too much of the film's appeal on this kind of repetitive slapstick--where people slam into walls and sharp objects without pain, mug elaborately, and heap abuse on each other without offense--that the Three Stooges did much better. It's good textbook vaudeville but not good comedy...
...Beatty has a purpose beyond merely mocking the life of an L.A. hairdresser, as he lets us know at the outset with the flashing of "Election Day" on the dark screen, and as he reminds us every time we see the face that is becoming the most comic mug since Tom Dewey. Ah, yes, we think, as we watch George's tumescence, very similar to the swelling of CREEP's campaign funds. A pair of legs spreading apart, we realize, is quite analogous to the hairy palm of a politician opening up to receive a bribe. As we watch George...