Word: worldlys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films are all but indistinguishable-we come away with a memory of one or two good jokes, but people don't remember Woody Allen jokes. Because Monty Python, like anything surrealistic, depends on the realism it parodies; it takes not of the world outside and (ab)uses it. Whereas Woody operates in a vacuum, surrounding himself with flimsy satirical types who recur in each film he makes, and his humor vanishes once his personality isn't on screen...
...pound weakling before, Yacowar magically transforms him into the beach bully of the art world. For some of us, precisely Woody Allen's redeeming feature is that he places himself on the 'before' side; he knows that it's good to be able to laugh at yourself, but it's better not to find yourself needing to spend all your time in this pastime. Hence the nimbus of gloom on all his films. Certainly few people would recognize what makes Allen so popular in the tone Yacowar wields...
...sale, currently scheduled for December 18, will open a tract off Cape Cod--one of the world's richest fishing grounds--to exploratory drilling. Groups protesting the sale said that the Department of Interior's decision underestimates the roughness of the area's waters and the value of its fisheries...
...These are the wildest waters in the world. It's called the graveyard of the Atlantic, and this is where they propose to start drilling without proper safeguards," Francis Sargent, former governor of Massachusetts, said to the crowd of about...
...show's first three acts are brilliant, the blocking simple and elegant and the acting convincing. The first three acts are a sad tale, "best for winter." In the fourth act, the play metamorphoses into a springtime world of romance and comedy: Redford's interpretation of this act is fit only for the Ziegfeld follies. He has included kick lines, scat numbers and Three Stooges slapstick falls. These numbers are endless and the act almost succeeds in ruining an otherwise brilliant production...