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...totally successful in correlating black and white alienation, he does have a decided knack for good, pungent dialogue. "What do you want from us, baby?" shrieks a black homosexual to a desolated Roddy at film's end. "Whatever answers you're lookin' for, we ain't it. No matter what they tell you, baby, we ain't got rhythm." The fault of this modest and diverting enterprise is that, like Roddy himself, it can never resolve the question of black and white identities and, by attempting to combine the two, produces only an uneasy shade...
BASICALLY, I'm pretty apolitical. Given a choice between polities and art, I prefer my art unsullied. So, why ain't this a drama review you ask, Because I began last Sunday by reading the Times' "The Week in Review," which predicted that the nation would stumble into yet another cataclysm sometime this fall. Like by October 15, and certainly by the November march on Washington that is bound to follow. Poor Richard is likely to feel quite threatened, as he did at last week's news conference where he said that Senator Goodell's plan...
...playing Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" while Wyatt and Billy shoot past the shacks of the Deep South's black population ("If the sun refuse to shine / I don't mind. I don't mind / If the mountains fell in the sea / Let it be, it ain't me / All right, 'cos I got my own world to look through / And I ain't gonna copy...
...note leads gracefully to the next, and the result is just as satisfying in its own way. Unexpectedly bending and holding notes like a crooner, Dylan gave a lyric, wistful quality to the traditional Irish ballad, Wild Mountain Thyme. He introduced no new songs, but older ones like It Ain't Me Babe, once intoned in harsh, jagged phrases, took on new colors and a smoother flow...
Fortunately, each of us holds exactly one vote in determining how the language shall be used, and there ain't a damn thing that Goldman, Barzun, et al., can do except bitch about...