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...long ago, the illicit weekend tryst in the country often demanded more skill at the front desk than in the bedroom. Couples approaching a frowning innkeeper would go into contortions as they twisted school rings around to look like wedding bands and shuffled their suitcases to hide the fact that the initials did not match. But today door men do not wink, porters do not leer, and managers in even the starchiest establishments could not care less if a couple fails to sign in as Mr. and Mrs. - as long as they pay the double-room rate...
...ideal occasion for Mazursky to comment once again (as he did in Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and in the more ambitious and more interesting Alex in Wonderland) on the folkways of contemporary romance, where an innocent conversation can turn abruptly into a sexual scrimmage, and a tryst into trench warfare. He excels at putting down the trappings and pretensions of the middle-class life of Los Angeles with tart asides on stylish psychiatrists discussing the notion of "sport screwing," teen-age swingers, and hip health-food restaurants where satanic waiters recite the menu like an incantation...
...ecstasy -- in Fromm as in the film--is always ephemeral. The public that filled Time's letter columns and opposed the film on moral grounds also bought many millions of copies of Fromm's Art of Loving, and made his ideas popular wisdom. In showing the orgiastic tryst as an ultimate failure, the film plays out a moral well within that wisdom. The departure from bourgeois morality lies in the deeper implication that the characters' ecstasy is the fleeting and only hope in a desparate world where women demand that their men be fortresses of strength and men seek protection...
...buys his own glasses in Bloomingdale's so Mom won't discover any traces. "Are you married?" he asks, trying to make chitchat. "Mr. Navazio assumes I am married," replies the businesslike Elaine. "I assume what I want." Unfortunately for purposes of the tryst, the only thing Barney can assume is a defensive, feckless...
Today's mid-afternoon tryst with Amherst begins the more somnolence phase of the Crimson's schedule. The Lord Jeffs, who have won six of their ten matches thus far, normally take a highly emotional approach to the Harvard match. Since Amherst hasn't had a victory over the Crimson since they locked up Ebbets Field permanently, Harvard normally takes a more casual attitude towards the annual contest. Still, in the traditional spirit of collegiate competitive sport, the Crimson will pile into a few automobiles this morning, grab a couple of toll tickets at Weston, and make its way across...