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...well as contributing to a local small press journal called Thicket. After three and a half years of establishing residence in Austin, the poet has planted his future in the "fresh and promising" literary climate of the city, shunning New York, which he considers "dead," and California, calling it "rotten," while quoting O. Henry's description of Texas...
Different studies have proved personal compatibility and not strict job performance to be the most important reason for most corporate promotions. The system may be rotten, but men use it regularly--on the golf courses and tennis courts, at cocktail parties, and within their circles of family and friends. When women use such tactics, their qualifications are questioned; when men use them they are just winked at. The selective application of this ethic becomes a screen to keep women from climbing corporate ladders...
...many cultural barriers to be accessible to American youth. Riding motorbikes with glee, munching french fries and mustard, and wrangling with Calvinist consciences, the Spetters (translated Aces) are rebellious youth who "live like there's no tomorrow." The soundtrack consists of second-rate juke box numbers from the Johnny Rotten timevault, but it is probably the flaunted flesh in Spetters which has made it a box office success. There are masturbations, erections, girl-swappings, older women, and a penis-measuring contest, all apparently dear to international punks...
Rowlands does a creditable job, considering the vacuum she's thrown into; throughout, she evinces talent and intelligence, if only by looking trapped. It only makes it worse that what she's trapped by is her husband. For if Cassavetes can blame his failure on his rotten actors (excepting Rowlands), so can they blame the film's failure on Cassavetes. Without actors, Cassavetes is thrown back upon his own technical resources, and he hasn't a leg to stand on. Camera work is repetitive and unimaginative. When he wants to evoke an urban mood, he gives us mass transit; there...
...kind to say that something goes wrong with the film; instead it slowly dawns on the audience that the entire concept behind the movie is rotten, corrupted and contemptible. Slow fades, sudden silences and softly focused scenes are so calculated that they sour as soon as they hit the screen. One is left less with wonder than with the "romance" of lower Washington St. where you can touch live naked women for a quarter as they writhe in the obligatory high-heeled shoes and Victorian garters. Someone, somewhere wants to make Reeves a star, and it seems that they will...