Word: small-town
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...complacent in the face of growing competition, want to spruce it up and launch a promotional campaign. Says Author Leon Uris, a 20-year resident: "We've been ho-humming it for years. We have to get competitive." But other residents, who want to preserve Aspen's small-town charm, are disturbed by calls for mass marketing. "We're a mature resort with a solid product," says Lodge Owner Allan Blomquist. "We don't need flamboyant hype...
...room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with its plastic-covered swivel stools around the counter, the displays of cheap trinkets, and the neon-like wall displays and jukebox, never become too confining as Altman uses perpetually changing positions for the characters. His use of reflections through mirrors and dust-covered windows and different...
...there is the standard drunk, the standard failure and the standard terminal illness to grapple with) appear not as home truths but mere dramatic inventions. Finally a stale, locker-room odor begins to arise from a work that has nothing more on its mind than yet another attack on small-town bourgeois values...
Manyof the actors manage mediocre-to-good performances despite the interpretive and technical difficulties. Waxenberg provides the play with its only redeeming qualities. His excellent and evocative characterization of a small-town Huey Long is, however, diminished by the inconsistency of other actors' interpretations...
...trip is well worth taking. The author's father commands some literary notice as the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of imaginary verse epitaphs that celebrated and exposed small-town life in America. Nothing he wrote later earned as much praise and attention. He was nearing 60 and in his second marriage when Hilary was born in 1928. The young boy was both saddled and blessed with an old father who was already fading into vivid history. The poet regaled his child with anecdotes: "He could remember his grandmother on her deathbed, talking of Andy Jackson...