Word: bedrock
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Larkish Script. The bedrock of all Brooks films is frenzy; the nominal subject of Young Frankenstein-the skyhook for all the madness-is a satirical exhumation of Mary Shelley's classic. The Shelley story ought to have turned wormy by this time from virtually constant exposure. It is, however, still a powerful myth. One good measure of its resiliency is that even when Brooks is lampooning it, the story remains compelling, nearly inviolate. When Gene Wilder's Dr. Frankenstein tries to zap life into a grotesque, inanimate form, the movie goes serious despite itself. The myth is better...
...sense of isolation and special identity. There is nothing Yankee about the place; the fact that Boston was once a center for the abolitionist movement is irrelevant to Southie's history. For generations it has been the home of laboring Irish immigrant families and their descendants, an ethnic bedrock that has had layers of Poles, Lithuanians and Germans added to it. Southie's sons have worked Boston's docks, driven its trolleys and trucks, built its houses and walked its police beats...
...seemingly ended Richard Nixon's political career in 1962 by crushing him in a race for the governorship. But Jerry Brown is out from under Pat Brown's considerable shadow now and has established himself as his own man with his own views. That is the bedrock requirement for any candidate in a major election this year. Across the country, Republicans and Democrats alike are struggling to convince jaded voters not simply that they are bright and capable candidates but, perhaps even more important, that they are independent, honest and practical as well...
...often, he found, they were so ill prepared in court that they could not argue their cases competently. He concluded that "true legal advocacy, the bedrock of our system, is crumbling...
Strengthening the bedrock has turned out to be profitable work for Morrison, who began with a $150,000 loan and is now grossing $2 million a year...