Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shares of national income. In this way, hedonism, the villain of Bell's analysis, was defused as a political danger and displaced into the harmless arena of culture, which it has dominated since the late 19th century. The anti-capitalism of American avant-garde artists, writers, intellectuals and even Greenwich Village is a result of the individual's refusal to subordinate the myth of liberalism--the individual's total freedom--to the Protestant ethic of the unfree work-place...
...Haunted Host. A comedy about gay love in Greenwich Village and a revival of the virgin effort by Robert Patrick, whose Kennedy's Children previewed here successfully this fall. At the New Theatre, 12 Holyoke St., in Harvard Square. Performances Tuesday through Friday at 8:30 p.m., Sunday...
...time for a change. Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker), 22 and just finished school, pulls up stakes. He shakes hands with Dad (Mike Kellin), kisses a resentful, concerned Mom (Shelley Winters) and leaves their small Brooklyn apartment for even smaller and certainly colder quarters in Greenwich Village. Larry wants to be an actor, and his departure is his first full step into la vie bohème. He dares not put on his beret, however, until he is safely on the subway...
Fond, canny, breakaway funny, Paul Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a comic reminiscence about salad days around Washington Square, the tough lessons and small victories that mark the end of growing up. What is best about Mazursky's work (Alex in Wonderland, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto) comes from his affectionate kind of satire, always clear-eyed and almost never derisive. Mazursky is a good spirit, and this is perhaps the most closely autobiographical of all his movies. Like Larry, he was a scuffling New York actor (he showed up as one of the leads...
...film is filled with familiar presences-the overbearing Jewish mother, the fizzled poseurs and intrepid novitiates of Greenwich Village. But Mazursky places his characters in situations where nuance, not novelty, makes the scene ring true. When Mrs. Lapinsky shows up at Larry's apartment with a couple of shopping bags full of food, the vignette seems at first too recognizable. Any mother would bring along a chicken. But only Mrs. Lapinsky would present it snuggled in a pot, surrounded with potatoes and vegetables all cleaned and carefully cut, ready for the front burner. The scene becomes a classic...