Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is a patchwork of pop culture - its title derived from a Tim Buckley tune, its sound track laden with song fragments and snippets of news broadcasts, its pastel photography reminiscent of countless TV commercials. Monte Hellman, director of Two-Lane Blacktop, even appears in a cameo role. All this does not amount to much more than another episode of Sunset Strip angst, but there are reassuring indications throughout that Director James Frawley and Scenarist Floyd Mutrux are capable of better work...
...League at the moment. Unfortunately, against Yale last week, they proved that it will always be the second best team in Palmer Stadium. After the game, the Tigers may offer to permanently play their contests away. Dartmouth has confidence in its offense and will roll to the tune...
...well in advance that it was headed for Orissa. "The authorities seem always caught unawares by calamities, even when they are at least partially foreseeable," said the Statesman, one of India's leading dailies. "The traditional attitude of resignation to the caprices of nature seems totally out of tune with modern times." At week's end a new cyclone was ominously brewing in the bay, which seems to be an inexhaustible spawning ground of misery; it was heading toward India's east coast...
...favorite part of the Wellington Victory overture is when there's musketfire and everybody plays "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." We can just see old Beethoven, deaf as a coffee table, pounding his staff out of tune with the music, having a swell time, and musing over a new piece for that young violinist Kreutzer. Everyone has his bad days. You'll probably want to see The Touch, Ingmar Bergman's first English language motion picture, for yourself: go to an early show with your best friend and a bag of leechee nuts...
...cast is distractingly nonprofessional. What is decisively wrong with Joe Hill is that it lacks historical complexity. The Molly Maguires, another film about labor's early struggles, was remorselessly real, almost like a dirge. Joe Hill, despite its occasional beauties, is more like a sentimental pop tune...