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Today, 20 congressional hearings and $83 million later, the station is closed, too dangerous to use. Parts of the roof have caved in. Leaking water has spread sepia stains on the gilt-edged ceilings and knocked loose hefty chunks of plaster. Pipes have burst, leaving muddy lakes. Toadstools grow from urinals and floors. Beneath 36 granite Roman soldiers encircling the balcony of the musty waiting room, rats and roaches prowl...
Stevie awkwardly mingles cinematic language (flashbacks in sepia) and theatrical style (asides spoken into the camera). The core of the film - the domestic life of Stevie and her "lion aunt" - is insistently naturalistic, yet Stevie is as cluttered with brickbat metaphors as the cottage parlor is with bric-a-brac. But if the camera eye too often blinks, the film's mind and heart are humanly acute. The dialogue deftly threads domestic chitchat and Big Themes: the detachment of the artist, the terrifying uncontrollability of life. And at the film's center is the simple trust binding...
ULTIMATELY, THEN this film is a high-tech attemp at naivete. The more the director tries to cover up Reeves with swelling music and "magical" sepia sequences, the more frustrated the audience becomes. Enough manipulation. Enough manufactured emotion. Enough preying on private fantasy. Enough of the self-congratulatory "love" of beer commercials and snide movies. It is best to leave this sort of film to future generations who, after they master time travel, may also devise the necessary base for a high-tech future;--the cryogenic suspension of disbelief, wonder, and surprise...
...used to have a high school, a tavern, a cattle market, a drugstore and soda fountain. It used to have a hardware store, its own doctor, even a dentist. It used to have a barber shop, a newspaper. Marvin Neff, 74, and his wife Lucy, 70, treasure some old sepia postcards that prove Claypool even had a handsome elevated bandstand, center block on Main Street, where brass-band concerts were given every Saturday night. Another card shows an attractive little commercial hotel. "The Shipley Hotel was right there," Neff says, pointing at a building now occupied by the Chamness Tucker...
Well, maybe. Though there are an estimated 3,200 EVs of one kind or another in use today in the U.S., a number of problems remain. Not the least is that the electric car's image is still an ancient sepia-tint photograph, a little mildewed and smelling of old lace. To hot young engineers in Detroit-where the action nowadays is in computerized fuel injection, stratified charge engines and other technologies for saving gasoline-electrics are a scientific diversion. Wall Street's auto-industry analysts reflect that mood. Says Maryann Keller, a vice president of Paine Webber...