Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the harvest on the Great Plains, it is not unusual to cut at night. A few days' delay in cutting ready wheat makes little difference to the wheat; it is the weather that can be the problem. Summer storms often send huge hailstones, smashing car windshields, denting tin roofs, flattening wheatfields. They are so common that once a farmer's wheat is ready, he wants it harvested. And tonight is a whole lot better than tomorrow...
...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...
...hardness. Here we haven't the faintest idea what motivates these two men in modern-day America. Given O'Neal's skill as a driver, the thought keeps occurring that he could be doing just as well, with a lot less hassle, on the stock-car circuit. And Dern's cynicism easily qualifies him for a job behind a big desk at an entertainment conglomerate...
Other random thoughts occur. For example, how come in movies like this a couple of crooks can indulge in a top-speed car chase through downtown Los Ange les for 20 minutes without attracting a single squad car, when you or I get hauled in just for failing to make a left-turn signal? How come Hill insists on making the leading lady (Isabelle Adjani) so enigmatic, so much the dark lady of a thou sand bad screenplays, that the entire audience giggles every time she talks without moving her lips? And, finally, how come the Department of Energy didn...
Today any mishap, no matter how fluky, can wind up in court. Take the case of the woman who collected $50,000 damages from San Francisco with the contention that her fall against a pole in a runaway cable car transformed her into a nymphomaniac. Or the pedestrian who, as she crossed Chicago's Sears Tower plaza, suffered a broken jaw when the wind toppled her against a guard rail. She recently filed a $250,000 suit against the architects and manager of the building. Her argument: the structure's design increased wind velocities in the area; moreover...