Word: school
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of today's heavy collegiate drinkers say that they developed their taste for the stuff back in high school...
...American Graffiti, Screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz collaborated with Director George Lucas to transform high school graduation into a rite of mythic proportions. Lucas has moved on to more celestial myths, but his former partners remain preoccupied with the pangs of growing up. In French Postcards, Huyck and Katz try to create a true sequel to Graffiti: their new film is a rueful comedy about American students whose lives change dramatically during a year abroad. But this time the director is Huyck, not Lucas, and the results are deflating. French Postcards'comic anecdotes do not coalesce into...
...direction generally accentuates the script's failings. Though Huyck cuts frantically among his stories, he tuckers out the audience without ever accelerating the film. The elaborate finale, involving a chaotic end-of-term school play, does not achieve its intended purpose of ty ing all the plot lines into a bittersweet cli max. What is missing is Lucas' fluent visual language. In cinematic terms, French Postcards sadly proves to be not so much American Graffiti as fractured Franglais. Rich
When the returns from Tuesday's Boston City Council and School Committee elections are closely examined, one truth will become self-evident--the true Boston "pol" is a very rare creature. Instead, there are politicians who carry black wards, and those who win in Southie, and in Eastie and in Charlestown...
Actually, names provide as much of a rationale for choosing councilors as anything else in this election year. No one has mentioned many issues, and although all have talked about the racial violence plaguing the city, few have offered any solutions. When Boston voters pull the council and school board levers tomorrow, it will be business as usual in this traditional city...