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Unfortunately, in the hip, personality conscious 80's, married couples don't get back together after they've been divorced. They go their separate and sometimes adulterous ways, as does blue-collar steel worker Harry Mackenzie (Gene Hackman) in Twice after he meets up with Audrey (Ann Margret), the new vamp/bartender in town, on the night of his fiftieth birthday. (Of all the unromantic places in which to meet up with one's future lifemate, a run-down neighborhood bar takes the cake...
...film tries to show how dad's deflating marriage makes daughter Sunny rethink her own marriage to an unemployed steel worker. We don't see much reevaluation/reconsideration going on, just a lot of bitter recrimination and vociferous shouting matches between Sunny and her father, climaxing in the staple confrontation scene, as initiated by Sunny, between the three members of the romantic triangle...
...SECRETS, Steel...
...whose existence their makers hardly suspected. Square pegs in square holes, they become landmarks of a kind. Thus it was with the work that made Bartlett's reputation, Rhapsody, 1975-76. It consists of 988 images, each done in model- airplane paint on an identical square of white-enameled steel. There are --to oversimplify this strangely permutational work, which fills a whole gallery in the present exhibition--four figurative motifs (house, tree, mountain, sea), three abstract ones (square, circle, triangle), three kinds of drawing (freehand, ruled, dots) and a wide but fixed number of standard colors, used straight from...
This rationale offered perfect political cover for Congressmen whose real purpose was to protect the endangered tax breaks of special-interest groups. . Sunbelt Congressmen could look out for oil and gas; Northwestern Congressmen could protect timber; Representatives from Rustbelt states could defend steel and heavy industry. In the end, 164 Republicans and 59 Democrats rebelled and defeated the proposed rule, 223 to 202. Only 14 Republicans backed the President...