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...year-old not want to sing so plaintively, write so cryptically, look at the world through such sensitive eyes, and feel so wrongfully hurt? Now, for the price of admission, you can buy "After the Gold Rush" and dream about how it used to be. Not better, but perhaps simpler...
...went through the looking glass, that there is little sense at all in the mad dashes of a hyperactive culture. Advertising agencies, the first to become aware of changing sensibilities and the first to exploit them, have perceived in Americans the desire to get back to a slower, simpler nature and they have been peddling their products along those lines. Clearly, advertisers aren't going to help anybody get anything except a new breakfast food in the pantry, but it is equally clear that the desire to get out of the race is a distinguishable trend in the American consciousness...
...earlier and simpler age, there was only baseball. A really tight pennant race would drown out political campaigns in September, and kids were let out of school at World Series time. But, as everybody knows, faster and more violent sports have eclipsed the old national pastime...
...Ninety-Two in the Shade, the joke is simpler and more deadly. After a wretched drug trip, young Tom Skelton goes home to Key West and decides to break in as a professional fishing guide. He copies the angling style of an old outlaw named Nichol Dance, who was run out of Kentucky for killing a man and who can tell where the permit will run long before the fish appear-at least when he is not too drunk to speak. One day he offers Skelton his bookings; he has killed another man, he claims, and will soon...
...Disney movies, often set either in a small-town America entirely detached from what is left of that old reality or in a scrubbed-up version of a turn-of-the-century world that feeds the nation's nostalgia for what it fondly-if erroneously-believes were simpler, better times. Setting aside the animated features, the typical Disney movie today is static, overreliant on low-grade verbal humor and ill-conceived comic situations-cars and chimpanzees that are almost human, which is more than you can say for the people who appear in support of them...