Word: newsreel
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Despite its synthetic Latinisms, flip dissonance and references to Lennon-McCartney songs, Webber's music is evocative and often catchy. Prince's staging is more problematical. Using a large company and rear-projected newsreel footage, the director has created some undeniably powerful tableaux: Evita's political rallies, her death and funeral have a dark and chilling majesty. But Prince is capable of sinking to Rice's simplistic level: Argentina's aristocratic class is symbolized by a phalanx of chorus people who seem to have stepped out of the Ascot Gavotte number of My Fair Lady...
...newsreel footage from Hitler's heyday? A movie or television drama about the Third Reich? No. The scenes were from recently filmed documentaries about neo-Nazi organizations in West Germany. Although their numbers are minuscule, and their threat to democracy in the Federal Republic nonexistent, the neo-Nazis have become more openly militant in recent months - inspired, perhaps, by the brazen terrorism of the leftist Red Army Faction...
...clothing and hair styles of the pre-mod years; Disc Jockey Murray the K and Ed Sullivan (in the eerie reincarnation of Impressionist Will Jordan) are on hand to play their pivotal roles in the drama. The Beatles themselves appear only as ghosts: on record jackets, in silhouette, in newsreel footage and, naturally, via their old song hits on the sound track. That is how it should be, for the movie's subject is not the lads from Liverpool but the millions of Americans whose lives they turned upside down...
...modicum of control over their own lives. America of this period is well suited for a novel or play that examines that superficiality and gets at the pain lying beneath it. But Manulis's U.S.A. omits far too much of what transpires beneath the surface. What remains after the newsreel and strung together character collages is a superficial play about superficial people...
...sweep over him. The words of a famous Lennon love song about the need to make up after a spat: "Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong," also get a resonance from war, in this case some slow newsreel footage of a U.S. warplane being wheeled toward the flight line in Viet...