Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game was rudely interrupted in the second inning when the caretaker of Soldiers Field, an ancient remnant of another era, came to end the softball extravaganza...
Mark Kramer's Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy is an uneasy eulogy for the dying remnant. It's the foreshadowing of a requiem we'll probably be too busy to sing, for an eccentric community, which Kramer calls "Clabberville," of western Massachusetts farmers. The book is not a romance; it doesn't try to win you back to the land with the cheerleading tone of some pseudo-Movement drivel. The book is personalized journalism, comprising 28 pieces which Kramer wrote for the old Phoenix. These are honest first-hand sketches of the blessings and limits of rural existence...
...leaves the past behind as the background for the development of new forms. No one today would try to recreate King Oliver or Jelly Roll Morton, and the great jazzmen still alive play even their old songs in new ways, always experimenting. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is the remnant of the original jazz--so far removed from current jazz as to be an anachronism, a piece of history that is Storyville and New Orleans and Dixieland, which captivates even children too young to understand nostalgia...
Actually, of course, amnesty means forgetting, and Nixon is right to reject this. That there was a saving remnant who would not fight for General Thieu is one of the few aspects of the Indochina war that we can be proud of. If we had any sense, we should shout it from the mountaintops...
INNOCENT BYSTANDERS is like a remnant from Carnaby Street, a vestige of the unmourned days of trendy English film making when everything was sharp angles and bilious color, like a 20-quid suit. It is mostly the usual spy stuff, terse and vicious, with Stanley Baker as an aging agent sent out on his last big job. Its dizzying intrigue of counterplots and triplecrosses probably would have worked better if Director Peter Collinson had not tried to slick it up with a lot of addled editing and improbable violence. Given the prevailing tone of careless hokum, two peformances are triumphant...