Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fran Drescher as Freed's chauffeur and secretary fall into each other's arms during the rock show after having bickered with each other throughout the whole movie. We are meant to think t hat it's the magic of the moment and they really liked each other anyway, but this is implausible if one attends to their characters, which are wonderful and funny, but not the sort that fall in love. In short, this movie delegates to the viewer the creation of a large portion of the screenplay. I personally was disappointed that I could not receive a credit...
...latest hostilities have certainly not improved the prospects for the forthcoming Carter-Begin meeting. Nobody had been particularly hopeful anyway, especially after Begin let it be known three weeks ago that Israel no longer believes that U.N. Resolution 242, which among other things calls for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, applies to the West Bank. Now, as one Administration official puts it, "the main topic may be 'Get out of Lebanon.' " Carter will once more urge Begin to show more flexibility (over 242, for instance, and the question of Jewish settlements) and will undoubtedly express some serious reservations about...
...oriented science courses and will discourage the "better students" in those areas from applying to Harvard. But, counters one proponent of the system, "the kind of science student who'd turn this place down because of the core is the kind who'd end up at M.I.T. anyway...
Psychokinesis is the ability to focus and project mental influence on physical objects. Those who have it can, in theory anyway, move mountains or, if we are to believe The Fury, afflict people who cross them with ailments ranging from nosebleeds to cerebral hemorrhages, and worse. To most of us, psychokinesis exists in that exotic realm where pseudo-scientific speculation meets metaphysics, but for Brian De Palma it is obviously an obsession. It was the subject of 1976's highly successful Carrie, and he has returned to it again in The Fury...
...public lewdness), and Pat Nixon ("stress-related stroke"). This is simply idle, and a spongy chapter relating the life of New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who was neither an immigrant nor a name changer but is gathered into Morgan's embrace anyway, is not much better...