Word: blown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Dick Richards never dwells on any one cliche for long, and he moves the gory battle scenes along positively briskly. March or Die manages a fairly business-like air. But its limitation as well as its achievement is that it faithfully re-creates the sand-blown Legion epics of the 1930s. It is an instant late show. And like those oldies on TV, it is dotted with lovably preposterous lines. The immaculate Deneuve, looking in a filthy casbah like a woman at a Chanel showing, coos to Hill: "You don't belong here." Hackman stands amid the devastation...
...near namesake of the old-time radio serial, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, the self-styled "Tracer of Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones...
...borrowed clothes from members of the audience and went home in cabs. Waiters at Manhattan restaurants served patrons by candlelight. Buses were delayed only slightly by darkened traffic lights. Garbage trucks whined as usual on their nightly rounds. Mayor Abraham Beame, assuming, like many citizens, that a fuse had blown, ad-libbed a quip during a campaign speech at the Co-op City Traditional Synagogue in The Bronx. "See," he said. "This is what you get for not paying your bills...
...Correspondent Jean Vallely. And growing numbers of people these days are looking at him and for him. In tandem with the release of New York, New York, De Niro (disguised as Saxophonist Jimmy Doyle) appeared on the covers of a couple of national magazines. This blitz may not have blown De Niro's cover, but Doyle had better be careful when he goes out. De Niro receives ten scripts per week from agents and producers, who know a bankable commodity when they see one. He is booked up solid for the next two years and could...
...will be a slow, carefully monitored journey. First, 6 million cu. ft. of nitrogen will be blown through the pipeline to purge air from the system, reducing the threat of oil-vapor explosions. Next, a cylindrical plug, called a "pig," will be shoved into the line. Finally, after a signal from Valdez, workmen will open valves at Prudhoe, allowing long-capped crude to fill the line behind the pig. The moving oil will push the pig through the 48-in.-diameter steel pipe at 1 m.p.h. As it goes, the cylinder will shove out of the pipe any refuse that...