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Nashville. It's all been said before, but we'll repeat it for the umpteenth time: Nashville comes as close to breakthrough as a film can these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine...
...suggestion is not to worry about that silly Number One ranking. Just sit back and watch the tournament justify UCLA's claim to the top spot for the umpteenth year. Somehow, it just always happens that...
Last weekend, for the umpteenth time, Nicklaus unfurled one of his patented closing salvos to win the Jackie Gleason Inverrary tournament and shake off the pack of young lions who have been gobbling up the early prize money...
...hell broke loose when McPhee, out of position for the umpteenth time, made yet another atrocious call and denied Harvard a goal. After a scramble in front of the net, the puck ended up in the twine. McPhee held that the puck was kicked in and disallowed the goal...
...Halleluia! This premature Lent musci is succeeded by a frothy, exuberant and brilliant Mardi-Gras "Carnival." Clapton finally gets a move on. Though the song palls after the umpteenth kaleidoscope whirl around the muscial merry-go-round you hope again that next time, on the next track, you'll win a real prize...