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...movie-going public. For this film's enormous success clearly has little to do with its cinematic merits, which are not all that numerous, and everything to do with the morose message it manages to transmit. Five Easy Pieces is about emotionally handicapped people trying desperately to ward off terminal psychic disaster-and, accordingly, its phenomenal appeal seems very much a symptom of a national mood bordering on emotional collapse...
...affair, however, is potentially far more serious. Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was less a political novel than a lyrically philosophical view of the effects of the Revolution on the lives of people. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn's main works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) are explicit descriptions of the day-by-day degradation that some 16 million Russians unjustly underwent in prisons and concentration camps during Stalin's regime. His books indirectly raise the question of the complicity of Russia's present rulers in the old tyrant...
...little unfair to compare them. They seem to have a different mission. Harper's is very lively and au courant. It's even going a bit kinky. The Atlantic still retains its heritage of civility, literary writing and careful reporting." Adds Ward Just, who has written for both magazines: "Manning hasn't sacrificed durable quality for the passions of the moment. He is not afraid to be dull at times...
Williams has sung gospel since her childhood, and her many tours with the Ward Singers and Duke Ellington have won her a world-wide reputation. As the star of "Black Nativity." she also introduced the first Jazz Mass at the Antibes Jazz Festival...
...hitchhiking and girls' feelings toward him. He was always the victim of pranks. Teenage girls would give him phone numbers which they said were theirs but which actually were those of their worst enemies. Another prank involved the hospital. Frankie was an expert on current events in the maternity ward, but he was ignorant about the new wing. He was fascinated when some kid told him the wing folded up into the building at night...