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Breezy is not just another May-September romance; it is more of a March-January sort of thing. He (William Hoiden) is a divorced real estate salesman inhabiting the only gloomy and unenviable modern house in Southern California. She (Kay Lenz) is a vagrant hippie who lands on his doorstep one morning and, after some suitably mature reluctance on his part, in his bed a little later. He is weary and wise, she is innocent and wise, and they spend altogether too much time exchanging mutually edifying homilies while Director Eastwood searches for camera placements that tend too much toward...
...suspect that sometime in the next few weeks, Mr. Nixon's innocence may be proclaimed by a relieved band of Republican leaders who have read the transcripts of the tapes--that is, of course, the transcripts of those tapes that have not been "lost," or erased by the vagrant finger and heavy foot of Rose Mary Woods, or are not obscured by the Marine Band striking up "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" just as the President starts to answer a question about pay-offs to the Watergate defendants. Who could believe the tapes except on blind faith, after...
...dreary life by becoming a cat burglar, sort of a country cousin to Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. Fortunately, O'Neal does not try to impersonate Grant, as he did in What's Up, Doc?, but instead scuffs through the part with his own vagrant charm. He is given a girl friend, played by Jacqueline Bisset, one of the few young actresses who really can get by on looks alone; and a nemesis, Warren Gates, an actor who can always be trusted to shape a full characterization even from some sketchy motivation and a few scraps...
Beckett's terrain is the skull; drama's terrain is society. Aristotle defined tragedy as the imitation of an action; Beckett's quasi-tragedies are imitations of nonaction. Drama thrives on characters; Beckett's work contains no characters, only the solitary vagrant thoughts of an agonized brain. Why, then, should such an antitheatrical playwright be touted as a master? One may only speculate that a despairing age simply mistakes his statements of paralysis, alienation and isolation for some sort of apocalyptic wisdom...
...Democrat," he noted, "can be trusted, they are all disloyal more or less.") He believed in hard work, himself, human reason, and a Life Force. He must have been a very difficult man to live with. One Roebling son, Edmund, ran away and had himself jailed as a common vagrant to escape his father. His brother Washington would later write of the runaway that in jail he "was enjoying life for the first time...