Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lively. Last month a young man filched a $15.98 bag from Hermes Track and Racquet Shop and walked blithely away. But he was reckoning without Shopowner Gary Easter, 31, a former Cleveland policeman and marathoner who runs ten miles a day. Easter quickly locked up the store and gave chase...
Both Miller and Frutkoff are effective, the former in a huge chestplate that makes it virtually impossible for him to sit down. Sellars' direction of their scenes, too, seems more careful. He dims the lights to a ghostly blue and has his pianists play wild chase music for their detection of the plot against Hero...
...Bond film, 007 gets his weapons from Q, that master of gadgets who provides Bond with something which you can bet 007 will use later on when all appears lost. Although one of these gadgets (a throbbing silver motor-boat with all the extras) is wasted on a chase scene with footage lifted from Live and Let Die, it nonetheless makes up for the obvious absence of the modified Ferrari which always seemed to be at 007's disposal throughout all his other films...
...hardly in a pout. In September 1980 he will take over as director of A.B.T., the country's grandest and most complex company (87 dancers, about 75 ballets in the repertory and an ambitious touring program). When he inherits this extensive but somewhat raveled empire from Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, who have been co-directors since 1945, Baryshnikov will be just...
...hypercritical. The sloppiness of Arthur Hiller's direction becomes apparent at the end, when you can look back and survey the ruins he's made of a basically funny idea. If little inconsistencies cause you to cringe-the same shot repeated several times in the course of a car chase, or subplots that never get resolved- The In-Laws may bring on a seizure...