Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nashville. It's all been said before, but we'll repeat it for the umpteenth time: Nashville comes as close to breakthrough as a film can these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine...
...country's historic fear of inflation, opposes heating up his economy too quickly. Carter is expected to renew the plea, but gingerly. Says one White House adviser: "We've made our point and we'll make it again. But we're not going to rub...
When Merwin descends to rub his language against the here and now, sparks can fly, as in a poem called "Fishing...
...Rub Out. Last fall, Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he had sold the cop a listening device-key testimony that helped convict Berke. Investigators theorize that Chin may have been rubbed out by someone else who had been using his equipment illegally and, hearing about the Berke case, decided that the bug maker had become too talkative for comfort. Then...
...Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational capitalism; that this development would cause another ratings crisis and that his network employers, unable to fire him because they too are owned by the conglomerate biggy, would arrange for their revolutionaries to rub the Prophet out in mid-diatribe, thus mercifully bringing him and the film...