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...supposed to be very folksy and good-natured and wise. But neither Bogdanovich nor Scenarist Alvin Sargent (Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing) seems to understand that the tutoring Moses gives Addie is not so much sentimental education as congenial corruption. We are supposed to smile and blink back a tear when Addie decides she would rather remain with Moses, bilking the suckers, than settle down to a stifling middle-class life...
...waters had become dangerously polluted that the public awoke and demanded the steps that are now gradually beginning to turn the tide of pollution. The U.S. may have even less time to make important decisions about energy. When the gas tanks run dry and the lights begin to blink out, it will be too late...
...LONG string of danger signals began to blink ever more insistently last week. The message: like a runaway freight train, the economy is hurtling forward at an inflationary speed that could send it off the rails into recession next year...
...observer. The reader does not want Casey to be explained-at the core of every soul there is an irreducible question mark, and the only difference between politicians and other sinners is that the former's question marks are little neon signs that glow in five colors and blink on and off. The trouble with Perkins is that he shrugs and gives up before he gets to the place where Casey's blinking sign could have been seen...
...blink a tear and the boy is gone," moans the sound-track chorus as the stern-wheeler chunks off downriver. The boy will be back in a couple of weeks-he's just taking a vacation with Judge Thatcher and Becky-but the kind of minds who find it natural and necessary to turn Tom Sawyer into a musical cannot be expected to resist topping their concoction with a thick glop of Reddi-wip sentiment...