Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Waltz--The Band in that fateful last performance at Frisco's Winterland, turned into an eminently enjoyable, if somewhat self-congratulatory, evening of musical entertainment. Every big name you can think of is here, but the film is really all about The Band and their feelings about giving up life on the road after 16 years. The interviews are interesting and often humorous, and most of the music is simply great. If you like anything about The Band, or even if you're just curious...
...pathetic to the totally absurd last weekend as the Yankees announced on Old-Timer's Day that Martin would once again manage the team in the 1980 season. It's almost too weird for comment. George Steinbrenner obviously doesn't want to play the heavy, and Martin, apparently in somewhat shaky physical and mental health, wants his job back. Bob Lemon must feel great, and the rest of the club (led of late by Thurman Munson, who has been consistently hot through July) must feel as if they are trapped in a moving looney...
Illustrious Corpses is a somewhat flawed film, in that its labyrinthine plot can hopelessly confuse even the most attentive viewer. This reviewer had to see it twice just to understand what was going on, and I'm still not sure about some parts. But it is a must see for those looking for suspense and some consciousness-raising in the scary business of how powerful groups use certain events such as assassinations to influence public opinion for quite contrary purposes...
...postal workers' agreement, for which the Administration had tirelessly lobbied, is a small but significant departure from those egregious gains. It is also a good deal more moderate than what the postal workers had originally demanded, and could well wind up giving them somewhat lower increases than they enjoyed under their last contract...
People make noises about "Victorian morality" as a synonym for all those repressive forces that denied humanity its natural evolution toward Hustler magazine and Laurel Canyon group-gropes, but Victorian culture is still somewhat enigmatic. Nowhere is this truer than in painting. Modernism, the art of the past hundred years, defined itself in opposition to 19th century "bourgeois" painting: the art of the Salon in France, of the Royal Academy in England. Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse were everything that Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edward John Poynter and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema were not and could not be. There...