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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Robert Altman's new film looks like a baffling slice of metaphysical sci-fi-a sort of 2001 at Marienbad. Weirdly costumed characters with names like Essex and Ambrosia wander around a frozen, nameless city mumbling about the Apocalypse. Packs of vicious dogs appear in scene after snowy scene to gnaw on abandoned human corpses. The number five turns up everywhere: people wear five-sided hats, speak of a five-sided universe and play a five-sided board game called Quintet. What is going on? Is that rascal Altman trying to bring back the new math...
...success: famous, frightened and mother-fixated. The movie catches Presley's suicidal insulation, the shifts of mood and all his uncertainty, manages to make his success seem ultimately stultifying without ever inviting pity. Just as important, he is not treated either as a cultural icon or as some sort of bloated, junked-up superstar, but simply as he was, a great singer whose life grew beyond him, and out of control...
When he made that famous forecast in The American Challenge a decade ago, the French publisher and pop economist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber voiced a familiar European fear: that U.S. industry, armed with a strong dollar and high technological and marketing prowess, was rapidly turning Western Europe into a sort of American commercial romper room. So much for that worry. What now seems to rouse European passions is not the threat of a Yankee invasion but the prospect of a disruptive retreat...
...chain, is negotiating to buy Bonwit's twelve branches across the country, which it would operate under the Bonwit Teller name. But at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, where Bonwit's was rouged cheek by powdered jowl with Tiffany and Bergdorf Goodman, there will probably be some sort of highrise...
...Anytime I mention, 'Why aren't we including women in a class discussion?' they just sort of stare and call me a stupid feminist," one student commented...