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...just forget about electing representatives of the people and leave the whole bundle of wax to the umpteen thousand lobbyists who seem to be directing the traffic as it is? We could save ourselves the cost of some 500 Congressmen and their staffs and make a start at reducing the national debt...
...hard to see how two hours of viewing Diane Keaton as a nymphomaniac schoolteacher sets Looking for Mr. Goodbar apart from umpteen other films viewing women as prostitutes. In addition, if Diane's willingness to be photographed naked-"like a piece of meat"-falls under your writer's definition of modesty, what would he consider immodest? I guess her "la-de-dahs" cover a multitude of sins...
...similar to its predecessors. Big trouble is brewing in San Francisco and all of San Francisco's finest are unable to stop it. Enter Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints filed against him. Ninety minutes, umpteen bodies and two or three episodes of debauchery later, the case is solved and the Bay City is safe once again. The particulars vary from flick to flick (the enemies were crooked cops in Magnum Force, young revolutionaries in The Enforcers), but the cliched plot remains the same...
Equus. a fine production of Peter Shaffer's powerful exploration of madness. Also the longest-running show in Boston this year--it's run has been extended umpteen times already, but it probably won't be extended again, so get tickets while you can. At the Wilbur Theatre, 252 Tremont St., through February 21. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
...Sharp, who has remained single, is wary of trying to balance marriage and a career. "The trouble comes when a woman tries to be too many things at one time: a wife, a mother, a career woman, a femme fatale. That's when the psychiatrist is called in at umpteen dollars an hour. A woman has got to draw up a blueprint. She has got to budget her life...