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Probably the best of these moments is a scene of an ecclesiastical fashion show. While stone-faced church dignitaries hover in their seats, two black-cloaked spectres of the Inquisition pound boogie woogie on an ancient organ; and dutifully announced in the best fashion-show style roller-skating, bicycle riding nuns and priests parade by in the most outlandish of costumes: black satin for novices, immaculate turtle dove, neondecorated vestments and portable stained-glass windows. It is an orgy of Vatican decay, crowned finally by the entrance of the Pope himself, ossified and immobile, wheeled in on a huge golden...
...announces halfway through the first act. "Broadway is a jungle. I'm going back to Centerville where people are nice." Surprisingly enough, she never does, though, and at the end of her first performance -- on board ship, since the WPA is bulldozing her theater to turn it into a roller risk--her boyfriend Dick assures her that "All Broadway is at your feet" where, as Groucho Marz once remarked, there's always plenty of room. There has to be, because the whole cast spends most of its time tapdancing over the whole goddamned stage, as Holden Caulfield or somebody eloquently...
...peace roller coaster seemed to be moving again. Henry Kissinger in Paris, elusive black limousines, suburban hideaways, no hard news but tantalizing intimations of "rapid progress." Twice Kissinger extended his stay 24 hours, inevitably heightening the speculation that the dealing had indeed grown serious. In Saigon President Nguyen Van Thieu contributed his bit by vehemently asserting in a speech that he would never agree to a coalition government-which naturally enough suggested that his future was front and center in the Paris bargaining...
...have been a technical miscalculation, but a certain measure of thanks is due to Don Johnson and Harry Jetrick, the soundmen on this roller-skating movie, who have created such an uproar on the roller rink that much of the dialogue is incomprehensible...
...plot, which is barely discernible, concerns the physical and emotional bruising inflicted and endured by the denizens of the roller rink. Raquel, refusing to throw a match, wins the competition but loses the man she loves (Kevin McCarthy). Raquel's rival on the track is played by Helena Kallianitoes, the manic hitchhiker in Five Easy Pieces, who turns in a performance so alive with currents of frustration and alcoholic lesbian hostility that it should never have been wasted on a penny-dreadful movie like this...