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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Screwed Up does have a few clever scenes: during one in particular a worker finally makes love to his reluctant bride when, in the midst of his hot pursuit, a television falls and she has to thrust her arms defenselessly behind her head to keep the set from smashing. Even this bit may upset some, and the over-all tenor of the film is probably exemplified better by a bizarre "dance" of beef carcasses in a slaughter house, done to an operatic score. The entire image suggests Wertmuller's perverse opinion of her characters, and it certainly shows the possibilities...
...Party" culled out of the lyricists' work songs from the deserving famous to those mysteriously vanished into the oubliette of public memory. For the most part, Comden and Green avoid songs made unsingably immortal by the particular stars for whom they were written, choosing instead those in which the thrust lies in the verbal wit, poetics, and/or drama. The variegated chain of musical excerpts didn't always Ring Bells for the audience, but if there wasn't applause at the first line, there infallibly was at the last; the interplay of words, the subtly expressive gesture, the sheer virtuosity...
...this "Party" was a vastly entertaining performance. Comden and Green are careful to say they are writers, not performers, but they are almost as talented on the boards as on paper. Dramatics were perfectly designed, blocking and business minimal but maximally suggestive. Their voices, Comden's coloratura in particular, were the biggest surprise of all. Any entertainer able to transform the cavernous spaces of the Loeb mainstage into an intimate club has quite a noisemaker...
That vote cast harsh light on a particular problem for the South's Republican Party, which as recently as 1972 showed promise of providing the region, at long last, with a genuine two-party system. Dwight Eisenhower, national hero, had brought respectability to Southern Republicanism in 1952, carrying Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. His success signaled at least the beginning of the end for "yellow-dog democracy," in which, or so it was said, Southerners would vote for a yellow dog if it were nominated by the Democratic Party. By the late 1950s, efforts by Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern...
Larry Shaw decided, after his wife died in 1969, that Chicago was no place for a single parent to raise three children. In particular, he says, "I was worried about the schools and the gangs." He moved to his native Memphis to join Stax Record Co.'s promotion department. He bought a five-bedroom, Tudor-style house in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, and hired a housekeeper. When Stax went bankrupt, Shaw started his own consulting agency, which helps a dozen firms to sell to black consumers. He earns about $40,000 a year...