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Dogs focuses on a bunch of punk rockers, students and hangers-on living together in slovenly chaos in Melbourne's post-punk scene of the late '70s. Their life is a constant decadent merry-go-round of clubs and convenience stores, drugs and drugged-out sex. The characters are bored enough to watch static on TV, as they do in one scene. You can imagine how the audience feels...
...only people who could care less about Dogs than the audience are the characters. They are disaffected refugees from the stifling mores of their middle-class parents. Rebellion is a fine thing, but this motley bunch of outcasts replace the materialism and hypocrisy of their bourgeois upbringing with complete apathy--their lives are as messy as their house. Lowenstein wants to be daring by eliminating any entertaining conventions of movie-making and we're supposed to be hip enough not to care. But if the stream of people beating a retreat out of the theatre was any evidence, not caring...
Sure, Jones is still out, but what a bunch of receivers you've got. Brian Barringer catches passes as easily as most people sign their names. He has 17 catches already--last year's leader had 18. In the first half against Bucknell Barringer caught seven. Neil Phillips has made two acrobatic TD catches. Big Kent Lucas provides a sure pair of hands at tight...
...number of people in the press and party, Biden came across as a glib wise guy, a candidate of style rather than substance. Says a Democratic strategist of his fellow pros: "This is a fairly liberal bunch, and we saw Biden trying to appropriate the liberal mantle with rhetorical tricks." Accusations of plagiarism thus hurt as almost nothing else could. They turned Biden's strong point, the passionate oratory that could bring a crowd to its feet, into a subject for ridicule and fed deep suspicions about his ability to be President...
...enough news conferences, interviews and appearances to fill their needs. When the President does show up, the result is what one network official calls a "feeding frenzy," with flying elbows, shouts, roars, groans. Reagan could shut it off with a stern finger-pointing. Harry Truman would have cut the bunch down to pips and squeaks with one of his nasal tongue-lashings. It used to hurt good...