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...look at it from a distance. The Acts tries to re-weave the fabric of this legend in colorfast and pre-shrunk threads of modern idiom. Casting nostalgia aside, one must admit that any tapestry furnishing the room of a modern mind must be able to go in the wash, to be treated as something useable and abusable, not as a museum piece. Steinbeck has come a long way towards making Arthur wash...
Daterman knows the pheromone's power from personal experience: "You can take a shower, shave, wash your clothes, and the moths will still find you." Nonetheless, Daterman is willing to suffer the indignity of the moths' affections for the sake of insect control. After all, he says, "it's only embarrassing in the presence of another scientist who knows what the moth has on his mind...
...trouble is that no incident achieves its full measure of comedy or melodrama, just as none of the characters hanging about the car wash are given sharp definition. A film that might have been an interesting curiosity, some thing quite novel on today's movie scene, turns out to be much less engaging in execution than it is as an idea. Car Wash does suggest, though, that there are unsuspected film possibilities in observing closely the daily lives of ordinary black people. Despite the movie's devitalizing casualness, it is a relief to see urban blacks neither...