Word: schoolgirlisms
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...just three days, the only cheap commodity is life itself. In March, antigovernment guerrillas ambushed a succession of army convoys and police stations, slaying 120 soldiers and police. The army responded with a vengeance. In raids throughout the capital, soldiers slaughtered 65 Kampala residents, including a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and dumped the bodies in a forest outside the city that Amin's goon squad used to dispose of its victims...
Caulkins' awesome swimming performance was the highlight of the second day of the four-day AAU Swimming Nationals being held at Harvard's Blodgett Pool. While the lanky schoolgirl slowly swam a victory lap on her back, the crowded auditorium rose to its feet, applauding the stellar performance for three long minutes...
...proclamations of "I am the greatest" certainly don't fit into the modest schoolgirl's vocabulary. Answering the phone with a pleasant drawl at her Nashville. Tennessee, home recently, Caulkins displayed none of the superstar arrogance that might be expected from an athlete of her caliber. Deliberately avoiding what she says was her "yes-no" style when she first started being interviewed, Caulkins now generously devotes large chunks of time to answering reporters' questions, enthusiastically elaborating in all her responses...
This is, potentially, hot stuff. But Depardieu and Huppert, who at least on paper would seem to make a pretty erotic combination, refuse to strike sparks. Depardieu has played this part before, and now looks to have played it out. Huppert, with the freckled, enigmatic face of a sullen schoolgirl, is a tabula rosé on which other directors have written personality. But Pialat is too reticent to give her dramatic motivation, and Huppert is too self-enclosed to convey the orgasmic release that would give her character, and the film, a little life. Alas, Loulou is a corpse...
Throughout the album, as on the two before, several basic styles merge--a sea-chanty-like instrumental called "Lucky" precedes "Rain," which kicks off with a vintage Nashville feel. Then "I'm an Automobile" features a hard rock thump and a lighthearted come-on called "Schoolgirl" arrives with a skipping, folksy tempo. True to the ways established on the first two LPs, Forbert's melodies are catchy and his lyrics hang around to provoke rethinking. The songs not so much demand attention as engage it, sidling up to a listener's imagination with payloads of humor, observation and, sometimes, frustration...