Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broadway has attempted the impossible so far this season-theater without plays. In this drama vacuum, we have been offered illustrated record albums, scissors-and-paste adaptations of short stories and documentary racial preachments...
...movie has no plot at all but several sub-plots, none of which ever develop into anything. There is a love interest between Motorhead Sherwood, an actor who appears to suffer from some brain malfunction, and a vacuum cleaner that isn't really a vacuum cleaner but is actually some guy dressed up like a vacuum cleaner who never talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks...
...casual Parisian passerby, the contraptions look like smokestacks or versions of Colonnes Morris, pillars handy for posting theatrical notices. Actually, the two 16.5-ft.-tall towers just erected in the Gare de Lyon section of Paris are huge, electrically driven vacuum cleaners designed to suck in dust, filter it and blow clean air out the top. "Clear the air! Wash the wind! Clean the sky!" as T.S. Eliot put it. If tests made of the surrounding air show that the towers really work, 50 to 100 more may be set up around the city. But that would require more electricity...
...more than George Jackson had lived in a vacuum prior to his final return to the California prison system, was he to live in seclusion in the joint--although much of his time was to be spent in solitary confinement...
...soul on ice, he goes to the penitentiary to seek a personal absolution. In the spare quiet of his cell, isolated from his fellow men, he contemplates his crime and punishment. However, the process of purgation and change which Jackson was undergoing was not occurring in a human vacuum, nor even in an atmosphere of rational calm. He was still in the joint, and in the joint there are always forces that try to make sure you don't escape an awareness of where...