Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle of the World beckons with the promise of that all-too-rare film that synthesizes the two great battles of life, the political and the sexual. The action moves from the smoky back room, where cynical machine men map out the fate of society, to the honky tonk cafe, where a tacit smile and a pair of pretty legs determine the fate of individuals, and in the process we seem to get a valuable glance into the multi-dimensional world of both man as social animal and man as existential wanderer...
...quivering little bundle of sadomasochism, helping the two drivers and destroying them at the same time. Unfortunately, Strick does not get around to concentrating on her or developing the character beyond a flat concept. He is content to let her quiver while he takes pictures of the honky-tonk at the side of the road...
...cent draft from Oley (Olga) Sopotnick, then put your quarter on the eight ball table and hear "Arms Full of Empty" and "Borrowed Angel" before Cecil, the shark, polishes off another local, and then you can take your run at the green felt while "Honky Tonk Women" and "Fingertips Part Two" and another hardrock tune take their turns on the box. On the chalkboard is a sign: "Make love and war." But this afternoon, a man who looks like a young George Wallace walks up to Kenny waiting for his beer at the bar and introduces himself. I order another...
...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...
...widow of a rich corpse that Christian has butchered in the embalming, he wins the suit by charming judge and jury. Women, including cafeteria acquaintances and wives of coworkers, fall at his feet. Christian is the parody of the fairy tale hero, lusting after fallen princesses in honky-tonk New York...