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...once a deft parody of a genre and loving tribute to it. In Hodges' first film, Get Carter (1971), he carried his absorption in the thriller close to outright imitation. For all its brutal energy, the movie was too heavily reminiscent of John Boorman's Point Blank. Hodges has not only got his distance in Pulp; he has also found a style and voice of his own. He is constantly, ebulliently inventive, whether in the scrupulously outrageous dialogue ("I expected the place to be crawling with cops, like maggots in a Camembert") or in one of the many...
McGovern said that although he has not always been satisfied with the press, the government's assault on the press since the Pentagon Papers' release in 1971 must be stopped before the newspapers become "blank and silent airwaves on the great issues" confronting the country...
...conservative proposals, drawn up by the Faculty Council, endorsed the present version of the CRR and gave the Committee a blank check to "improve" its procedures...
...Captain Edward Lindquist, 32, who has delivered such notices himself. "They guess it when they see the car and see you standing at the door. There isn't any good way to do it. No easy way. You get a cross section of reactions. Sometimes there is a blank stare. You're not sure if they've heard you. Sometimes there are tears. Sometimes there are tears before you say a word...
...takes the prize for elegant-and successful -simplicity; he pocketed all the deposit slips at the writing desks of the Riggs National Bank and replaced them with his own electronically coded forms. For three days, every customer who came in without a personal slip and used one of the "blank" forms was actually depositing money into the culprit's account. The thief reappeared, withdrew $100,000 and walked away; he has not yet been found...