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...Coca-Cola dispenser on the counter is a nostalgic relic-one of the old red shiny rounded numbers which looks like a Packard's back fender. The man and the wife who run it are friendly beyond normal courtesy and will happily make you almost any kind of American sandwich. I like the Varsity Spa and Spas like it the way some people like movies from the forties featuring men in zoot suits and pointed shoes. Freaks and Derelicts served, liquor and bratwurst...
...imagery of the film is as obvious as the plot. When Mark is refused a free sandwich, Antonioni cuts to an oversize billboard advertising sandwich bread. Los Angeles, used as a metaphor for America, is portrayed largely in visual cliches: billboards, TV commercials, neon lights, gun stores, crowded freeways, shabby neighborhoods. The brief footage of riot and bloodshed seems child's play compared with Medium Cool, and the musical score-made up mostly of contemporary rock tunes-is so uncertainly used as to appear superimposed. The two newcomers who play the leading roles are, like the film itself, pretty...
...much persuading, I conned a f??ernity man into accompanying me into Chicago the next day. Promptly 5 a. m. Thursday morning Day and I entered the subway station at ??vis Street in Evanston. Our only supplies were a roastbeef sandwich sm?ggled from the fraternity house and my small sack of Marshall Field chocolate chip cookies procured the day before...
...quarter past two in the morning. Charlie's wife stands alone in the Scollay Square subway station clutching a cold pastrami sandwich. She hears an oncoming train. She winds-up to throw. But with a wooosh the train has come and gone at 70 m.p.h. Russian dressing oozes out onto the still-trembling tracks...
...noticed a man sitting near me at the counter with no teeth and a beard and a brown suit in which the pocket was filled with ball point pens lined up like cigars and of which the zipper was completely missing and he ate half his grilled cheese sandwich before putting the second half, the chips and the carrot Curl into a brown paper sack and lighting a cigarette a Chesterfield and looking like Ezra Pound who was born not far from here in Hailey, Idaho. His name was Seth Morrison, born in Salt Lake in 1895, educated at Andover...