Word: stolidness
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...Thursday, 8-9 p.m. E.D.T.). Helen Reddy won a Grammy last year for her recording of I Am Woman, which has since become a sort of anthem for the Women's Liberation movement. The show's timid overtones of feminism, however, are not allowed to disturb its stolid, unimaginative variety-show format. Hampered by painfully writer-stricken interim patter, Ms. Reddy has neither the presence nor the experience to spark the old string-of-guests routine to life...
...work was better served by Jo seph Losey and Harold Pinter a couple of years back in The Go-Between. Once again, as in The Go-Between, class consciousness induces a terse, desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
Whimsical, quirky, sensuous Aunt Augusta is Henry's last chance at life. Henry simply hasn't lived. And it is his travels with her, to Istanbul in the flesh and into her past in reminiscence, that initiate him. Surviving one shocker after another, his stolid primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta tells him that his legal mother was a virgin, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum nipples in the spotlights. It is as if Aunt Augusta were Henry's wicked fairy...
...depending on how many other union chiefs are present to vote down Jerry Wurf. While that may be an exaggeration, the 54-year-old Wurf, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is certainly a maverick in the stolid hierarchy of organized labor. He has bucked the AFL-CIO high command on such issues as the 1972 election (Wurf was strong for George McGovern, while the federation observed a pro-Nixon neutrality) and the Viet Nam War (he repeatedly opposed council resolutions in support of the war). Even so, Wurf is a growing power...
...because of the inexhaustible promotional gimmicks, the bat and ball and senior citizens days; the all-weather artificial turf; the dazzling uniforms? Is it the metaphysics and momentum that still continue from the zenith of the '30s and '40s? Or is it that this supposedly stolid, permanent game has imperceptibly accommodated change-that in each era it has accepted physical, textual and social alterations that a decade before had seemed impossibly revolutionary? Is it that, in the end, no other sport is so accurate a reflection of the supposedly stolid, permanent-and ultimately changeable-country that surrounds...