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When Sanders chose to really play,instead of clowning around with the audience, hewas forceful and inspiring. At its best, the groupused the static harmonic framework of a model vampto create a spacious aural landscape. The courseof each tune was directed more towards detailingthat landscape than drawing out the linearprogression typical of most jazz improvisation. Attimes, the screams emanating from Sander's hornseemed like fiery blasts from the bowels of theEarth as the group reached a peak of model frenzy.Sanders seemed incapable of sustaining theenergy-level that this type of music demands,though, so these moments of epiphany werefleeting...
Comedian BILL MAHER caused a lot of static at the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Before a crowd that ranged from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Kato Kaelin, Maher drew boos when he joked about Senator Phil Gramm deporting his Korean-American wife and said D.C. mayor Marion Barry would get drugs off the city's streets "one gram at a time." Tough room...
Astrov's obsession is just one aspect of the play's preoccupation with time. His medical training encourages him to see the world as his patient. The prognosis is grim: Russia's forests are being stripped, its fauna decimated, its rivers defiled. But in Vanya's eyes, time is static. Boredom, frustration, tedium will reign eternally. The choice these two philosophers contrive is desolate: the world is going to hell, or it's already there...
...Young Danish Woman" has gold skin and copper hair. Her head and ravishingly long neck float against the shadowy depths of a black background. Beneath her neck, a small rectangle suggests her shirt collar. Her face is sensuously smudged, unlike Warhol's perfect "Marilyn." Lushly foliated, she is as static as a figure on an ancient Egyptian coffin...
Occasionally the low-budget film achieves moments which capture the antsy, interior world of close male friends in the tradition of "American Graffiti" or "Dinner." Too often, however, static camera work, awkward acting and the deliberate plod of the plot hinder potentially sharp interactions...