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...hard to imagine a more beautiful movie than Alice's Restaurant. Or a sadder one. Anyone who remembers Arlo Guthrie's rambling, hilarious talking-blues record of a couple of seasons back will probably be surprised by this movie version. All the favorite, funny episodes are still there: the garbage dumping after Thanksgiving dinner, the cops investigating "the scene of the crime" and taking "twenty-seven 8-by-10, colored glossy photographs with circles and arrows," and the Army induction with its "injections, inspections, detections, neglections." But Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) has woven these episodes...
...BLACK LEADERS are sadder, they are also wiser. The major lesson they've drawn form the last year's experience seems to be that blacks are going to have to be more resourceful in their efforts to save their children from early graves. Direct seizure of the white man's system was too simple. The emphasis now is on imagination and "alternatives" is the key word. "We can't take control of any damn system," says Holliday with quite bitterness. "It has got to be an alternative system...
...other use. Even this new concern, however, has not entirely erased the melancholy over the decay of England's country churches. "An empty country church," says the Rev. Philip Goodrich, vicar of a commuter-belt church near London, reflecting the sentiments of many Britons, "is somehow a much sadder phenomenon than an empty urban church. Nostalgia dogs...
Whatever became of Sigi? Alexis knows. He is Sigi-now a seasoned 39, sadder but wiser, a vigorous survivor of a career gone sour, a revenant from the limbo of semiretirement...
...William, son of John Shakspere," was baptized in 1564 in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford, England. In 1616, the famous son was buried in that same small church-which makes it all the sadder that today Stratford's Holy Trinity Church is a dilapidated ruin in dire need of restoration before it crumbles to the ground. Now to the rescue comes a group of Shakespeare devotees who have organized a $480,000 fund-raising drive to finance repairs. Said Sir Michael Redgrave, one of the leaders of the appeal: "Surely the need is self-evident. This...