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...That's absolute rubbish," retorted Times Co. Executive Vice President Sydney Gruson. "What the Post did was an act of boyish spite, not serious journalism." Indeed, though any newspaper has a First Amendment right to print pretty much what it pleases, most libertarians would probably have been happier had the Post reserved that defense for a more important case. Ends is hardly the Pentagon papers. Those damning Government documents might have remained a secret for decades had not the Times printed them. Ends was merely brought out a few days in advance, which may be enterprising journalism, but hardly...
...THESE structural weaknesses, the play contains many very moving and well-acted moments. The growing relationship between David and Saul that mixes rivalry with reluctant affection is subtly written and strikingly portrayed by Baxstresser and McDonough. Baxstresser's gender does not impede her portrayal of David; her slim, boyish looks overcome her feminine voice. Deceptively earnest and naive at first, Baxstresser waxes tense and ruthless. McDonough as Saul conveys the innocence and incompetence which plauge Saul very well, although at times he hammers in Saul's stupidity with overplayed grimaces and heavy-handed humor. Nevertheless, the scene where David reveals...
...Shaun is calculated to intimidate or offend. As Joe Hardy, boy sleuth, he is absolutely hygienic. In concert, he adorns himself in requisite skin-tights and shakes his tail at the yearning throngs, but the distinct outline of his briefs pressing through the clinging fabric is disarming and reassuringly boyish, like a kid who has got all the moves down but not quite mastered the fine points...
...passenger, Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was the boyish-looking scion of a Belgian family that built the Paris subway system at the turn of the century, and now, with Empain as overseer, controls a French conglomerate comprising 150 companies with 130,000 employees and annual sales of $4.7 billion. The kidnap vehicles and the Peugeot were found abandoned. Was Empain the victim, in the current European terminology, of a kidnap à 1'italienne, engineered by professional criminals purely for ransom, or of a kidnap à l'allemande, pulled off by terrorists trying to force the release...
...either?are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice and smile, or Reynolds' good-ole-boy con man, shooting from the lip as fast as Eastwood shoots from the hip. The comparison is not with their contemporary peers but with the major figures of the great age of screen heroism, to Coop and Gable, Bogie and Duke, those exemplars...