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...makers have left out. Bowie (Keith Carradine) is a young con who busts out of prison with a couple of older buddies (John Schuck, Bert Remsen) into the grim realities of the Depression South. Because they figure it to be no more antisocial than starvation, the trio start to rob small-town banks. They do it with matter-of-fact efficiency, and Altman treats them in the same even way. He is not concerned with the mechanics of the heist but the social subcurrents beneath it. Almost anyone else would have included a lot of hairbreadth getaway sequences, but Altman...
Some of Confucius's sayings are even potentially revolutionary--"You may rob the Three Armies of their commander-in-chief, but you cannot deprive the humblest peasant of his opinion...
...heard a tall guitarist accompanied by a curly-haired fiddler with a lightening bow playing and singing traditional music in Forbes Plaza, you have heard half of the group Water. If the other half is half as good, their concert of bluegrass, spiritual music, and ballads with Linda Neustadt, Rob Joel, and Al Firth this weekend should be a stomper. Saturday, February 23, at St. Paul's School, 8 p.m., $2. Party for everyone afterwards...
Lelouch takes care to place his tale in the late sixties, though there is nothing insistently late sixties in the movie. It's more one of those timeless love stories than anything else: a middle aged professional crook holing up in Cannes to rob a fancy (Van Cleef's) jewelry store, is smitten by the antique dealer who runs the shop adjacent. He pursues her by as labyrinthine a design as the one he lays for the robbery. He's no wizard at mind-reading, however, and both plans backfire. The police nab him (for some mysterious reason he dawdles...
...makes $200,000; though the rate for both is 5.85%, the tax is levied on the low-paid worker's entire income but on only the first $13,200 of the executive's salary. Yet many experts believe that a shift to general-revenue financing would rob the system of its biggest asset: the support it gets from workers who feel that their contributions are directly financing their own eventual retirement benefits...