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...elite corps; their tactics owe as much to football fields and medieval dungeons as the precinct house. The movie, coarse and hammer hard, follows the cops as they bust up an underworld kidnaping ring and avenge the death of a squad member. Director Philip d'Antoni, who produced Bullitt and The French Connection, has cut The Seven-Ups to pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors, and may go them a little better in the department of spleen-shattering spectacle. But perhaps there did not have to be one in the first place. Similarly...
...that he wanted to create: "a Saturday night movie." Unfortunately, however, Rosenberg seems determined to explore all the current cliches of violence −blood spattering picturesquely in the murder sequence, revolting emergency-room and autopsy routines, the inevitable car-chase climax, which makes one almost sorry, in retrospect, that Bullitt and The French Connection were ever made...
...Department also made other changes this year. Specifically, it required the graders to write signed comments. In past years, the criticism has been for Department-eyes only, and Bullitt says this system allowed readers to give a very high or very low grade without providing a coherent critique...
...DESPITE BULLITT'S noble expectations, the grad student thesis reader does feel this pressure, although it is unlikely that any grades were changed because of direct pressure from the other readers. Still, Graduate students say it is unfair to expect them to pretend that senior Faculty members do not affect how they read a thesis...
...reader and a cum from the other. After the two readers met with the third reader and Heimert, the sources said, the magna plus was lowered to a cum plus, and then a final grade was hammered out. In other departments, the three grades are usually averaged, but Bullitt says that numerical averages are too arbitrary, so the English Department decided to hold meetings instead...