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...crowning heroics. Yet it is, particularly for director Hill's first effort, stunning to look at. Bleached New Orleans pink and plaster white, lush Cajun greens. But mostly a million browns-browns that dwarf humans in the bulk of an industrial life that has left them out. The empty oyster-processing factory where Bronson fights among discarded shells is piled with hues of lifelessness; a shoeshine and a buck-and-wing echo eerily in a world where people only gather in out-of-the-way huddles in abandoned workplaces to watch powerful men without jobs try to kill each other...
Concerts abound this week. For example, Friday, the Garden features a triple bill with ZZ Top's "Bible-Belt Boogie"--a rehash of old blues licks at deafening volumes. Also the Blue Oyster Cult (embarrassingly bad) and Duke and the Drivers, listenable though still left in the shadows by J. Geils...
...STORY of Mariana serves the authors the way a grain of sand serves an oyster. It acts as an irritant to which they return again and again, a stimulus to the creation of an entire world--a world constructed from materials extracted painfully from within themselves. Through letters supposedly written to and by Mariana, they invent a cast of characters and unfold a baroque plot full of passion and intrigue. Interspersed with these letters are vignettes of other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced...
...Stavisky scandal was merely the occasion of Trotsky's expulsion and not its cause. Trotsky's appearances in the film are curious but handled without any major blunders, and the Trotsky theme does make the important point that the world--the world that Stavisky thinks is simply an oyster waiting to be raped--is a very serious world indeed. Resnais is trying to take advantage of the audience's knee-jerk response to celebrity by incarnating a great historical figure in his film; anything Trotsky does is interesting simply because he is Trotsky. Resnais can just sit back and register...
...that it was finally ready to move its subway cars to a new facility. I.M. Pei unveiled his design for the memorial complex. He planned a semi-circular building that would be capped off by an eight-story glass pavillion in the center. Pei said the "pearl in the oyster," which would have a huge American flag hanging from its ceiling and hold a bust of Kennedy, would be a fitting memorial to the president...