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...implications of the film live and die in 1941. Its political overtones never acquire palpable contemporary significance--which one senses is what Costa-Gavras was after but missed. The vitality and importance of a film like Z is lacking in Special Section. What happened in Vichy seems like a stale story; but what happened in Greece during the dictatorship was genuinely tragic. There's nothing really wrong with making more than one film about political repression, but in a world where political repression easily wins prizes for the most popular form of government, a director like Costa-Gavras should stick...
...looked pretty bad in the beginning of the meet. We were a little stale because we hadn't swum in a meet since December," coach Stephanie Johnson said yesterday. "Towards the end of the meet we swam well...
...production's most surprising success is the way the self-parody of the Fairies is successfully preserved. At no point do they become stale examples of Victorian whimsy. They prance on-stage as jokes, and they stay funny until the end. The Peers are excellent--booming out their lines or strutting across the stage with an exaggerated comical concern for their own dignity. Their first set of costumes looks ludicrously cheap--they're cut out of the kind of felt familiar to elementary school audiences. Again, probably the budget and not the imagination of the G & S Society...
...some of the trusted standbys (the Stones, the Dead, a few Beatles) were still alive and plugging away, churning out passable music, but each successive album sounded ever so much like the previous one, and the few before that. Even the live performances of the old favorites were growing stale: the effect of Mick slinking like a lynx and pouting like the original hermaphrodite had lost a good deal of its original charm, and the seemingly perpetual tours of all the possible combinations and permutations of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young began to evoke, just like they said in their...
...comfortable away from home. "When I get into those cities and banquets and hotels," he says, "I really miss the sky and hills of the West." But a national campaign will offer little chance for quiet replenishment at home. Sitting around at 2 a.m. with pushy delegates and stale coffee is hard work. That may be a problem for Reagan, says one of his advance men: "You can't schedule him too hard. And he runs down if he doesn't get those eight hours' sleep." How then did Reagan win the governorship twice without exhaustive efforts...