Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They blew up," he remembers. "They claimed I hadn't registered and told me I was in big trouble." For a few anxious days, Walsh feared that he would lose his job, and perhaps even the right to cross freely into Canada...
...poor man's Robert Redford. But Nolte's not as dumb as he looks, and that's his fortune--always managing to act one notch more sensitive and intelligent than you think he's capable of. That's not much, and he gets away with a lot, until his "big" scene at the end of the movie, when he emotes and rocks and gesticulates like a marionette and babbles in an elaborately whiny voice. Mostly, though, he's pretty good--funny, spirited, with a tongue-in-cheek existensial awareness made coarsely funny beside his physical pain...
...pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant who's made it in the big leagues--the private sector. Jo Bob Priddy, the Baby Huey of the team, exudes a grizzly bear cuddliness and enthusiasm that brings his par out of the sterotype file from which it was lifted. And Mac Davis, despite his musical talent--or lack thereof--turns in an engaging performance...
Once upon a time there was a small group of tenants and a big landlord. The tenants weren't happy with their building's numerous health code violations, so they complained to their landlord. The landlord would not act, so the tenants took legal action and forced him to respond. The landlord then made all the repairs, and they all lived happily ever after...
...Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. All are associated with The Public Interest and Commentary. Most are professors, including Moymhan, who, Steinfels devastatingly demonstrates, is also an ambitious presidential candidate and an Irish politican the old school. ("Blarney is one thing," author observes, "self-deception something else.") Connected with big-moneyed foundations, great universities ie Government, these neoconservatives exert disproportionate influence by preaching a doctrine that, the author argues, "threatens to attenuate and diminish the promise of American democracy." What are these seditious views? A certain discouraged attitude about the future and human nature in general. Misgivings about the decline...