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...flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response, thus vitiating the power of an energetic and original movie that gamely risks, in its more brutal moments, being mistaken for the very sort of thing it is criticizing. Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip?and misses its goal...
When Jimmy Carter began speaking out against Soviet violations of human rights, Moscow gruffly reminded him that many U.S. allies were hardly guiltless. At his press conference last week, Carter acknowledged that the Soviets had a point. "Obviously," he said, "there are deprivations of human rights even more brutal than the ones on which we've commented up to now." He singled out, in varying degrees of guilt, Uganda, South Korea, Cuba-and the U.S. Scores of other nations as well, many of them staunch U.S. allies, have systematically violated human rights while Washington looked the other...
...table with intransigent growers, and in the day-to-day scramble to survive. Yet those of us who assumed the strike had been won are needed again. The great majority of people who pick the food for our tables are still unprotected by a union contract, still subjected to brutal work conditions in order to feed their children who more often than not have to work in the fields as well. While the political strategy of the growers has grown more sophisticated over the years, farmworkers continue to be subjected to feudal work practices...
...unsure, Day keeps El Lobo and the story moving at a good clip, through a Spanish landscape drawn with evident familiarity and style. Most important, memories of the war still lend a fascination that the best fiction cannot wholly capture and the worst cannot extinguish. This passionate and brutal struggle was the postage stamp on a letter to the world...
...latest murders were indeed the work of Patriotic Front guerrillas, the brutal act could hardly have been more ill-conceived. After months of indecision over which of the feuding Rhodesian nationalist groups to support, most African states have now endorsed the Patriotic Front. Both Britain and the U.S. are convinced that the Front must be directly involved in the formation of a transition government in order to end the armed struggle. But the massacre appeared to cast doubt on the Front as a responsible force, and strengthened Prime Minister Ian Smith's claim that it is composed of brutal...