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...Atkinson, the summer of 1967 was the peakof the '60s: a mix of pop music, political potencyand sheer happiness...
Somehow it works, in part because of the way director Howard keeps his crowded frames abustle with activity, in part because of the sheer indomitability with which his leading characters are endowed by the actors and by writer Dolman, but mostly because the movie takes enlivening chances with its material: precognitive dreams, for example, and near death out-of-body experiences. Flirtations with magic realism are not at all what we expect to find in epic cinema...
Editor's Note: This list ranks the a capella jams of the first semester only. The intrepid a capella beat reporter, exhausted from the grueling pace and sheer musical intensity of the fall season, had to take a sabbatical second semester. Because the a capella beat reporter missed the Veritones jam, they do not appear on this list. The readers can put them anywhere they want...
...catalog, it would utter an Irish oath of bewilderment. It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures are from dray horses or Thoroughbreds. If one wanted an example of how art history gets trivialized by sheer overpopulation of the field and turned into a checkerboard of prolix specializations, this...
WILL THIS MADNESS NEVER END? ANOTHer ratings "sweeps," another torrent of tawdry TV movies about women being brutalized -- physically, mentally, sexually. For sheer masochistic excess, this month's champ is CBS'S IN MY DAUGHTER'S NAME. Donna Mills plays a woman whose daughter is raped and murdered. The sleazebag is acquitted on an insanity defense so ludicrous that the mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because...