Word: nones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Maggie Topkis is fine in several scenes, particularly when relating the story of her first and last high-school love, she has none of the delicacy and fragility that link Laura to her glass animals. And her acting is annoyingly obvious at times, showing instead of feeling...
...only assume that none of the students interviewed about drinking were employed. For those of us who are, we have more realistic worries about rent, tuition and so on. If I were an employer looking for fresh talent, I would take a dim view of the graduating students if they had to drink to face up to their problems...
...revenge that swept through Europe (Jihad! April in Paris!") in the late '80s world. ("4/7/87--Sheik Ali Fayadh Mahim was arrested in Beverly Hills today for trying to pass a bad emerald at Gucci's.") China, racked by hard rock, LSD and "un-Confucian sexual attitudes" among its youth, places none other than Richard Nixon at the helm in order to crush "The Great Trip Forward" with "The Great Clamp Downward: And tension persists in that area of the world: "4/4/83--In pre-emptive strikes on Hanoi ammo dumps, the Chinese dropped an estimated 40,000 tons of people on Vietnamese bombs...
...None scheduled...
...international cast and the Paris Opera name (Bergman used an all-Swedish cast for his Magic Flute), this Don Giovanni is musically undistinguished. Lorin Maazel's conducting sounds muddy and sluggish throughout--which could easily be the fault of the Exeter Street's Rocky Horror-blasted sound system. None of the singers does very much of the ornamentation most music scholars today believe was a critical part of performances in the composer's time. Most of all, there's a surprisingly lackadaisical air about Mozart's music as Losey presents it--as though the added visual verisimilitude could take some...