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Dressed in pure Martian style, British Rock Singer David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars packed in 6,000 in two nights at a marijuana-smoke-filled Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Bowie landed onstage in a contraption that looked like an overgrown Christmas tree ornament, and he seemed to have attracted an audience every bit as spaced-out as himself. Showers of valentines with little love messages poured down from the upper balconies, while Bowie and the Martian Spiders blasted their songs with such supersonic zeal that even the squeals from the audience were drowned...
...cinematography is, the film needs all the mystery it can muster to maintain interest. It's a film wrapped up in itself, just as the young man finds in the last scene that the village is cut off from the rest of the world, the tracks leading out overgrown with grass. It enters into no real moral grapplings; even its politics are just subordinate to tricks in the plot. More didactic concerns are left to Bertolucci's other films. What The Spider's Strategem demonstrates above all is his stunning technical finesse...
...irony, becomes the distortion. The myth becomes the vital, seductive reality. Inextricably ensnared in it, Athos cannot leave the town. At the station, successive announcements are made that the Parma train is late. Its arrival will probably be postponed infinitely. Athos kneels to look at the tracks. They are overgrown with weeds...
Moving into Richardson's old job at HEW will be Caspar Weinberger, currently director of the Office of Management and Budget. Weinberger is less renowned for his social vision than for his budget-cutting proclivities. He is expected to hack away at the overgrown tangle of New Frontier and Great Society programs, many of which are not working the way they were supposed to. His philosophy: "Money isn't the essential element in improving social conditions throughout the country." A man of similar outlook succeeds Weinberger as budget chief. Roy Ash, president of embattled Litton Industries, is charged...
...finds himself struggling at mid-career is not the legal kind, however, and he is not defense attorney but defendant. Staunton is a skilled professional, a rationalist, a cynic and a celibate whose pose in personal matters is to remain aloof. In reality, he lives in an increasingly overgrown clearing surrounded by an unexplored psychological jungle, whose advance he slows by drinking a bottle of whisky a day. One of the beasts lurking here is his beloathed father, a rich bully whose obnoxious character was seen in Fifth Business, and when Father dies mysteriously, Staunton flees from Toronto...