Word: uptightness
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...unfulfills: a go-go dancer (Geri Miller), a sex-parched housewife (Andrea Feld-man), and last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from garbage. Stefan Kanfer
...itself as a "social comedy of today's world." As the audience absorbs that modest claim, the film opens on Tad (Scott Glenn), mustachioed and lank-haired, wailing with a guitar in his dingy L.A. beach pad. His chick Tish (Barbara Hershey) is off to check out an uptight middle-class couple whose triplex in Brentwood is without child. Seems Mrs. Triplex has had a hysterectomy, and Tish is to audition for a possible rent-a-womb job with Mr. Triplex. There is heavy bread in the offing if she actually reproduces. "If we start right away...
...percentage of blacks. At Harvard, he had learned, precious little rapport existed between black and white students. Black students to stand alone, to do their own thing: there was something absolutely tribal about it. White radicals thought blacks narrow in their political or sociological interests- though, out of an uptight if enlightened white guilt, they said little on the record. Now, supposedly sophisticated and erudite adults, hoo-hawing and blathering in the Faculty Club, made it appear that no racial reason existed anywhere in the land. In his helpless despondency, the moderator drank himself into a calamitous state...
...Elliott Gould-"Star for an Uptight Age" [Sept. 7]? No, not really. Elliott Gould is far more a "Star in an Uptight Age" who helps us to feel less uptight for hours by bringing back the true essence of entertainment and thereby according us pleasure in a world so often so serious...
Outside pressed uptight against the same walls, is Harvard Square in all its rampaging paranoia...