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...helluva welcome," mused Roots Author Alex Haley from his perch on the Gambian presidential yacht. "You couldn't have staged that if you wanted to." Haley, 55, was delighted by the tumult of drums, whistles, musket shots, and whirling dancers dressed in leaves-all a salute to him and his brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will...
Just as Kushnick experiments with sounds and perceptions, Jeannie Lieberman sees herself as "a psychic emotional jiggler" who asks herself "deep root questions," and expects the listener to do the same. She uses her voice as an instrument, experimenting to discover the right texture, color and feel. The rising glissando in the second verse of "Velvet Sportcoat" abruptly alters the mood set by the song's first verse, and underscores the words: Haze like juice spilled slowly formless/Scent of citrus in my ears." In one of Johnson's compositions, "Instrumental," Lieberman makes bird like sounds that are almost primal...
...root of these failures lies in Fassbinder's theory about the relationship between politics and film in general. "I used to think," he says, "that if you brought people up against their own reality they'd react against it. I don't think that anymore." By the time he made Mother Kusters Fassbinder, influenced by the films of Douglas Sirk, had begun to think that the primary aim of film is to satisfy an audience and then bring in politics. He states that "there is no objective reality" and, therefore, unlike most Marxist artists he cannot be interested in portraying...
...foozled his chances by taking a critical bogey on the 16th when his six-iron flew the green. Vik's ball came to rest draped under a plant root, twined by branches, behind a mound. The whole shot should have been contracted out to a capable excavation company. Vik resorted to a wedge, lacking a steam shovel, and the ball appeared with about a pound of mixed solids, plopping down 20 feet from...
...there is an inherent problem in this story. Viewers are asked to root for the wrong side, the Germans, as they go about their nefarious business. But that difficulty is neatly finessed by two factors. The most important of them is casting Michael Caine as the assault group's commander. There is not another leading man on-screen today who so consistently exudes a sense of decency and honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral...