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Pyongyang is a city built on a grand scale, where everything seems keyed to the country's heroic selfesteem. Broad avenues and vistas sweep toward tall monuments that honor the struggle for liberation and pay homage to President Kim Il Sung, whose name and image are everywhere. Even the stations of the subway system, which rivals Moscow's, have such exhortative names as "Rehabilitation" and "National Building" and bear huge frescoes of the President...
Instead, one sees thousands of children marching to and from school singing songs about the great and fatherly Kim Il Sung. In one nursery school that I visited, the youngsters first bowed, to his childhood portrait, then had to recite the tale of an incident from his life...
...Tang Pei-sung, a onetime doctoral fellow in botany and plant physiology, leaned back on the couch in the hotel lobby and took a sip of his bourbon and Seven-up. "I'm so pleased to come back to the United States," the director of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, half-said and half-sighed...
...also stale gags about wayward cars and coitus interruptus. In this context, Altman's allusions to his better films are particularly depressing. Like Nashville, A Perfect Couple features a climactic death, weird minor characters who traipse mysteriously through the action, as well as a lengthy musical score, sung by Sheila's rock group. There are even moments when Heflin starts to look like Shelley Duvall. But this time Altman's idiosyncratic devices are not organic to his material; he slaps them clumsily onto the film, like aimless graffiti doodled on a billboard...
...much a parody of themselves as of art rock. A bizarre disco medley of "Anarchy in the U. K.," "God Save the Queen," "Pretty Vacant," and "No One's Innocent" follows on the same side. These, along with a French cafe version of "L'Anarchie Pour le U. K.," sung by Jerzimy on side four, and a delightfully absurd sax solo on "Belsen Vas a Gassa," evince a comic vision which makes this one of the funniest albums cut in a long time...