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...looming presence's of Nixon and Agnew. George just wants to peel off his jeans and hump, hump, hump, and hump more. Strangely enough, all the women around seem to want to do the same thing. I don't want to hear anything more about Peter Fonda in Easy Rider--George the hairdresser is more interesting and significant if we're talking about byproducts of the sixties. Beauty's performance is very, very good and so is Jack Warden...
...Easy Rider, Friday and Saturday, March...
...dance three bodies combine to depict a knight jousting--one man represents the horse, the second dancer sitting on his shoulders becomes the rider, and the third is suspended vertically as the lance. The bodies move in tandum as the horse rears and the rider thrusts his lance...
...care much if they do. But the careless craftsmanship scrimps on the spectacle and destroys the romance of what might have been a pretty fair adventure. The story is a pastiche of lost-world yarns. It goes heavy on Jules Verne and throws in odd bits from H. Rider Haggard and James Hilton. Donald Sinden, currently on Broadway in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of London Assurance (TIME, Dec. 30), shows up playing a curmudgeonly British explorer who goes on an elaborate search for his son. Junior has been missing for well over a year...
...Harcourt Courtly, plans to marry a country miss, Grace Harkaway, for her money. But before he can get Grace to the altar, his dashing and disobedient son Charles falls in love with her. He arranges to draw off Sir Harcourt with a fresh scent, the county's hardest rider to hounds, Lady Gay Spanker. Naturally the proceedings are hampered by a covey of long-winded subplotters, plus every other known theatrical device, all of which Eyre has the gall to retain only to dispose of them with affectionate derision. Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns...