Word: approachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monster picture. Alien might just as well be about a huge scorpion loose in a haunted house, circa 1953. While the murder sequences are executed with all the realism money can currently buy, the innocence that ignited vintage horror films is missing. Alien's steely, literal-minded approach to violence more often recalls last summer's joyless Jaws...
...idea is simple: dump the puck to the opposition's star defenseman in his own end and make him handle it until he wears himself out. The approach worked against Orr, and with two Rangers dogging his every move, it worked against Robinson. He made two mistakes that allowed goals and-rightfully, he said later-was booed by the Canadiens' fans...
...Forst is quick with his stick--he fired the Herald's Sunday magazine editor not long ago when the guy chose to spend a weekend with his family rather than fly down to the magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian's "Don't Quote Me..." column in the Boston Phoenix (O'Brian is the Boston media junkie's weekly fix), Forst told Hartnett, "Sure, go ahead. Stay where you are and in 10 years...
What this meant in the long-run was that the carrot-and-stick approach would be taken away from Harvard students if they supported the Biko Fund. Moreover, the Fund might be then used to detract from the real target of student concern on the South Africa issue: the Corporation's investment policy. Weighing this result against the very limited symbolic significance of the Biko Fund, it became clear that the political costs of keeping the Fund would far outweigh its benefits...
...loony side too. Add in those neat acting cameos and Last Embrace is not a total loss. It is just that the movie is not all that it might have been or promised to be. The title implies a certain passionate intensity of approach, but all the film really manages is a diffident hug, a peck on the cheek...