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TROPICI'S narrative barely manages to hold one's attention. When the director isn't senselessly simulating documentary reality--for some incomprehensible reason he feels compelled to film every passenger clambering aboard the truck--he is indulging himself in cheap pyrotechnics. For what it's worth, a smidgen of narrative tension is supplied by a dissident passenger who knows what Sao Paolo holds and how their employers will treat them: "Your have to watch out for those gringoes ... they don't like paying money for nothing." He plans to give them the slip once they hit the city, or else...
...what purpose? More to come of this. First however, a DIGRESSION ON IRONY, on the striking--or fortuitous--juxtapositions which brings the easy laugh or the satisfied and satisfying smirk, on the most promiscuously overtaxed on present literary and theatrical modes. There is no smidgen of irony in this production of Jesus, though certain of its devices, described here outside their stage context, will inevitably suggest the reverse. The hundreds of vivid and contemporary visual references with which Mr. Mayer has leavened this text--derived exclusively (excepting the interpolated songs) from the King James Version, Gospels and Apocrypha...
...July, a level more than 13% above that of July 1967. Despite such fixed-cost programs as Medicare, medical expenses were up 9% over July 1967, for the simple reason that doctors, dentists and hospitals are all charging more. Even though overall retail food prices rose only a smidgen, grocery-store prices were up a full 3% over the same month last year. Finally, July's traditional clothing sales brought prices down less than usual. The U.S. family budget this summer was obviously undergoing strains...
...outward affluence and fake wellbeing, says Author de Beauvoir, are the worst kind of illusion; reality is bile. Yet on the very last page, there seems to be a smidgen of vague hope, at least for the children-maybe. That is small compensation for a novel that is distinguished otherwise only for its predictable course and Gallic ennui...
...progestin (with a protective smidgen of estrogen added) for five or six days. The sequentials, like the combinations, tend to regularize the cycle, and most women who take them have an acceptably mild menstrual period...