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...performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mart. The ballet is a cartoon of existential angst, but, leaping over bed, chair and table, Baryshnikov turns it into a young man's rage at mortality...
...women seemed only to write from anger. But, as Spacks points out, anger is their strength, the energy fueling the female imagination. Too much of this fuel can cause a backfire, of course, and Spacks finds fault with Kate Millett for this reason. Indeed, those who enjoyed the rage in Millett's writing may be disappointed with Spacks's detached style...
Salt's adaptation follows West's novel closely in most of the plot details. It misses what is most crucial: West's tone of level rage and tilted compassion, his ability to make human even the most grotesque mockery. The novel, a series of interrelated sketches, does not have the strong narrative that lends itself best to film adaptation. So this movie has trouble finding a focus. The protagonist is Tod Hackett (William Atherton), an aspiring artist who works in the production department of a major studio. Hackett also nourishes a private vision of cataclysm, which...
...sleep in neatly ordered rows/She scatters dreams like the ashes of a diary page./I don't keep no records, don't look back./She comes she goes I don't keep track. /The floor is covered with her empty clothes./O my passion! O my rage!" Under McNamee's aegis. Lyon recorded two demonstration tapes for Columbia in 1970 and 1971. They are still in the can. After a lucky break ("I called up Columbia one day and told them my name and expressed the desire to audition, with the intention of making an album and becoming a star...
...assembly-line workers in On the Line--a black tenor with operatic ambitions, a shrunken Polish immigrant who dreams of buying his son a car for his high school graduation, foreman unable to cope with the car-smashing tough-punk rage of an Italian boy put on an impossible schedule by a time-study engineer--find little satisfaction in the labor they perform. But out of their relationships to one another at union picnics as well as in the plant, Swados's people make their mechanized factory into a human place. And though each of them is unique, there...