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...Alstyne and his Back Alley partner, Marty Coffey, endorse the Shakespeare Brothers' credo of street performing for its own sake but admit in the same breath that they would like to play clubs some day. Or, they admit, they "could get fed up with the whole routine." In the meantime, they hope to save money from this summer's tour for a trip to Australia this winter and perhaps Europe next year. What they and others seem to desire more than anything else is constant variety. Coffey was once a cabinet maker, Val Alstyne "a three-piece, nine-to-five...
Perhaps this calm is merely "the eye of a cyclone," as one actress suggested last week. On the other hand, it may just be that this time the Poles feel they have gained something worthwhile-and lasting-by undergoing so many hardships: the breath of freedom that has warmed their country during the past twelve months...
...book, whose title means "ordinary" in one American Black argot. One man, a coal miner, says this of whites: "Just thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody lie and say their dirt is not dirt or they lie to us about their dirt. I know these are the rottenest...
...juxtaposition of monotheism and black magic in a flurry of cliches and char-broiled priests. Risking very little, Robbins lets his movie get bogged down in Middle Ages muck, where it is continually trampled by hordes of frantic peasants and finally burled under the rotting carcass of old fire-breath himself...
REMEMBER BACK IN junior high school, there was always one kid who used to drive the teacher crazy? That's right, the Class Clown--the kid who could belch all the words to "God Bless America" on a single breath, who could pick it and flick it with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook...