Word: laurel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every shot - it has little of the director's usual narrative drive. The movie's story does not so much move forward as gradually selfdestruct. At times 1941 drags to a com- plete and stultifying halt: a lengthy dancehall brawl, conceived along the lines of a massive Laurel and Hardy pie fight, somehow comes out both mirthless and meanspirited...
...Like Laurel and Hardy (to invoke just two other great names), this team specializes in a comedy of severely limited means. There is basically only one gag: the Coyote thinks up ever more elaborate schemes to fell the bird that never wert, and the attempts always backfire. But what makes old Wile E. an immortal figure is what is known in the trade as "character animation"-those marvelously rendered expressions of confidence, cunning, determination, frustration and panic as he finds either the huge rock falling on him or himself falling off the cliff, while the bird scoots off across...
...Most of the guests gathered at the White House, from which vans whisked them to a makeshift helipad hard by the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument for the flight to Camp David. Arriving there, they were met by Secret Service men and ushered to the Laurel Lodge, where Carter joined them for breakfast, lunch or dinner and long postmeal talks; one lasted five hours, until from routine (steak and fresh vegetables) to exotic ("ten-boy curry," an Indian dish so named because ten mess boys supposedly are required to serve it and its condiments...
...reason is that Jerry has staked all on his new economics, and they won't play in Newark, Detroit or Chicago, even if they do in Laurel Canyon. A Democrat already in the White House preaching austerity is bad enough. "Austerity" is not a good rallying cry for the scattered liberal coalition that selects nominees. It is doubtful Carter, unpopular as he may be, will be unseated by a challenger with an even bleaker economic forecast and as stern a remedy in mind...
Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England staked enduring claims on the minds and hearts of generations to come through the power of their dramatists. Whatever the glories of the U.S. musical, the chances are that the laurel wreaths of posterity will rest on the brows of dramatists whose stature equals that of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. To foster potential successors to such playwrights is the worthiest of theatrical aims. Under the venturesome leadership of Jon Jory, that is precisely what Kentucky's Actors Theater of Louisville does...