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...circles, tends to center on the shortage of butane gas for cooking and whether to stay and support the Shah or get out. Then everyone says their thanks and farewells and leaves, only to become snarled in a huge traffic jam on their way home. Promptly at 9 the shrill of the traffic gives way to silence and a long low rumble: the Shah's tanks are once again rolling into position...
...major characters, Amy Aquino as the theatrical, selfish Lily Mortar stands out, delivering a credible performance in one of the less skillfully written parts in the show. Although she starts out overly shrill and theatrical, Aquino emanates deliberate maliciousness in the pivotal scene with Martha, and her sharp jabbing at her embroidery all the while is a nice touch. Aquino even manages to avoid looking ridiculous in the last scene, where she must indulge in hysterics over Martha's death. Gerber would have done well to cut that last scene, for it drags on and on while recriminations...
...often found in American films. They can mock the excesses (of behavior and expectations) of a radicalism past while retaining a decent respect for its just social criticisms and youthful idealism. At the same time they can note the inertness of a massively materialistic society without be coming shrill and off-putting about it. In short, there is a welcome and unexpected maturity of outlook in this little film that is extraordinarily attractive no matter where you happened to stand during the '60s or how you feel about the way things are going in the '70s. Above...
...revelation, and by rights the book of Paddy ought to take its place beside those of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John--except that Paddy suggests a cross between Puritan windbag Jonathan Edwards and Jerry Lewis. His characters pontificate and huff and puff and the whole thing is so shrill, pretentious and heavy-handed (not to mention boring) that it won Paddy an Oscar for his writing and it's called Paddy's Network. Which is just as well, because Sidney Lumet was the wrong director for Paddy's script--which could only have worked under a flaky, crazy director with...
...city which, unlike Atlanta, remains undimmed by human tears. Washington, D.C., for respite, to seek mercy and mortality there. A city that is acoustically dead, where I brought tales of life beyond the Chevy Chase Circle and the Beltway. Acoustically dead, but I didn't care, because the shrill tones of Atlanta, oh Atlanta, had left me emotionally deaf...