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...whatever. The issue that most grips me is monogamy for Utah. Many otherwise quite sane politicians become livid at the mention of the Mormons, a curious sect recently invented by a "prophet" and confined for the most part to the Utah desert, where Mormon women live in harems and breed incontinently. They sound very nice to me, if overly energetic...
...Familiar Breed. Travis, the taxi driver, is such a creature, and Robert deNiro has him down pat in a stunning, veracious performance. Director Scorsese has his environment down pat too. The garage that Travis works out of, the cafeteria where he takes his breaks, the porno theaters he haunts, the menacing avenues he cruises are rendered with thoroughly depressing realism...
...Taxi Driver's problems. For one thing, Travis is more a case study than a character. The backgrounds against which he moves never transcend the documentary category, never fuse into an artful vision of urban hellishness. Scorsese's work may be best-of-breed, but it is a familiar breed. The movie has an air of recent discovery, of shocked innocence about the tawdry quality of city life that is gratingly naive...
This vintage comedy tells us what we always want to be retold about theater folk: they are an unpredictable, incestuously inbred and insidiously attractive breed whose only natural habitat is the stage, whether they...
...schemers sneak and slander to secure tenure for themselves or deprive someone else of it; otherwise normal adults spend long hours trying to squeeze a few more dishonorable dollars out of a grant program to funnel into pet projects; academic wives, a generally bright and attractive strain of the breed, engage in childish games of status and snubbing that would move even the most vulgar and climbing Washington hostess to disgust. For one who accepted a semester at Harvard as a kind of reverse sabbatical--an academic retreat from the pettier aspects of politics--it is all rather...