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...maybe we'd have seen some of Boston, too, where the story is supposedly set--imagine the climactic operation taking place in Fenway Park, or on top of the John Harvard statue. But instead we get Dr. Michael Crichton, and it's goodbye to wit, to hell with the unseen, and a scalpel to the audience's brain...
...with that TV re-run; adding the visual dimension to the already warped dialogue of the troupe did not add much to the humor, but it did effectively shatter the mystique surrounding Monty Python stemming from my ignorance of the group's background and appearance. Had they but remained unseen, the Monty Python figures would have preserved their demigods-of-comedy status in my mind...
...primitive manners of the society it describes. Even more startling is the Tavianis' extravagant use of sound to intensify and comment upon the film's pivotal incidents. When, for instance, the hero first experiences sex (in the form of bestiality), the panting of a chorus of unseen copulators overwhelms the action. Later, a moment of incongruous accordion music smashes the film's pastoral hush to prefigure Ledda's liberation from the enforced silence of his youth. While the film is vibrantly photographed and generally well acted (notably by Omero Antonutti as the father and Fabrizio Forte...
...Vegas fame. It turns out that Acosta is in fact a crazy Chicano militant who has traded in his law books for the accoutrements of drug smuggling. Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak havoc on this self-styled Brown Buffalo. While the article makes precious little sense, it does at least furnish an appreciated respite from the self-congratulation filling most of the other pages in the issue...
...lifetime, or as briefly as one miserable, snow-bound winter. McPhee is fascinated by these people. Why did they come? What were they looking for, what were they running from? And what kind of person can survive--literally survive--the isolation, the forty-below winters, the constant and unseen dangers that one incurs every day in the wilderness...