Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Industry usually passes these expenses on to consumers. Administration economists estimate that regulations-good and bad, necessary and unnecessary -have added at least three-quarters of a point to the nation's current 10% annual inflation rate. Carolyn Shaw Bell, economics professor at Wellesley College, suggests some of the many reasons...
...life, the world is full of bad expressionism. The bore relentlessly baying "This is me" has his pictorial equivalent in the artist who decants his steaming guts on the canvas and asks you to admire their authenticity. In our post-psychological culture there are not many artists who make something aesthetically pleasing, let alone compelling, from the repetitive pattern of their own neuroses and fears...
...there aren't so many people interested in investigative reporting, the environment, social and political issues. Where did they go? Well, where did all the people go who didn't vote last week?" Added Jonathan Z. Larsen, New Times' editor since 1974: "We bore readers the bad news, and they slew the messenger...
...third brother, Lenny (Armand Assante), is a war hero embittered by a bad leg. He hates his job as an embalmer (why doesn't he take advantage of the numerous benefit programs for WW II vets?). Initially opposed to the idea of Victor's wrestling, Lenny succumbs to his desire for money and encourages Victor to fight. He pushes him mercilessly. It is the saintly Cosmo who, realizing the error of his own ways, tries to stop Victor from driving himself too hard...
STALLONE'S DIRECTING is as bad as his screenplay. He overuses close-ups, slow motion and freeze shots in attempting to create the dramatic tension his shallow characters and uninteresting plot fail to provide. In one scene, Victor is delivering a large block of ice to someone who lives up a long flight of stairs: close-ups of Victor's sweating face, shots of the imposing staircase, shots of Victor climbing the stairs, and so on, until he finds the customer did not want any ice. What should be drama becomes unwitting comedy...