Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much to blame as are the magazine's editors for the fact that the magazine's little touch of Hustler has continued for 23 years. Readers write in to say that the swimsuit issue brings them warmth in the midst of winter. More likely, it saves them a trip out to the drugstore...
...Trip to Bountiful...
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR television, The Trip to Bountiful survived three decades of artistic limbo before making it to the silver screen. Its troubled odyssey explains both why the film is so resolute, and why its scope is so limited. Visually splendid, The Trip to Bountiful is inspiring despite its stark, biting realism. But there is frustratingly little plot development: never is the movie threatening, and rarely is it even surprising. As an audience, we are awed, but not challenged...
...times The Trip to Bountiful resembles an extended advertisement for Greyhound. As an old woman travels to her childhood home, we are shown innumerable shots of a bus outlined against the sublime Texas landscape. This cinematography is skillfully executed but too often drifts into triteness. One gets the feeling that there is a little too much Message (with a capital M) here...
...Trip to Bountiful has gone a little stale, too. Like the old woman's homecoming, which is fraught with disappointment as well as joy, this film reaches its fruition with less than triumphant results...