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...petition need not be seen as irrelevant. In fact, the resolution serves to emphasize the important medical and ethical arguments in favor of legalizing medicinal marijuana. But perhaps more importantly, the council's stand demonstrates that, although the medicinal marijuana movement has long been associated with the burntout pot smokers of the '60s, the time has come for mainstream America to embrace the cause...
Some people don't belong in this decaying cityscape. One is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a burntout, Bogie-style detective; the others are "replicants," robots of advanced design who have infiltrated the city to find their creator and prolong their short, violent lives beyond the allotted four-year span. Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job-for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader...
...idea of New York as penal colony has so much potential. Carpenter, though, simply wastes the possibilities. Manhattan, with its mounumental architecture on every block, has an abundance of magnificent locations for titanic, evil struggles. Why then did Carpenter choose to set Escape mostly in the anonymous alleys and burntout storefronts of other cities? And why does he employ location shots for a meaningless wrestling match (featuring a performer who bears an admirable resemblance to that titan of professional wrestling. George "The Animal" Steele). Escape could just as well take place in St. Louis...
Mass Appeal. Bill C. Davis' drama sets an ardent seminarian on fire for the Lord against his mentor, a burntout, aging priest who has lost his vocation in complacency, Milo O'Shea etched the old priest on the canvas of indelible theatrical memories...
...mogrifications that straight-laced students undergo on the dance floor; one of the only real pleasures of Harvard parties is finding yourself dancing ferociously with someone whose usually upright demeanor only prompts idle fantasy. The room was--except for the intervals when 72 churning legs had been disappointed by burntout equipment (and the hosts had scrambled into the boiler room to bring back the music)--a Bacchanalian sink...