Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Estelle are locked in a barren room for eternity, and they have only each other to destroy. But destruction is not possible. They are already dead and so instead create a symbiosis of torture; Inez wants Estelle, and Estelle wants Garcin, Garcin only wants to be left alone. They chase each other endlessly until they realize that their desires will not meet, that there is no chance of resolution. There can be no illusions in hell; they cannot content themselves with the hope that their desires will someday be fulfilled. They must live only with themselves; they must endure...
Unfortunately, the underlying process of social demystification of police, the hard-drug world, and the lives of drug importers, break down as the chase gets hotter, and the pace of the film accelerates into a string of crowd-pleasing scenes of spectacle and carnage. The most spectacular of them all is a race between an elevated train commandeered by the hired-gun of the French importer, and a car commandeered and furiously driven on the street below by Doyle. Friedkin tries very hard to make the chase both credible and creditably spectacular; the justification for Doyle's madman pursuit...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, said that Harvard applications "were running about 1000 ahead of last year...
With its laser machines, fights to the death and exotic homicides, Diamonds Are Forever is like a Looney Tune. A chaotic car chase through the streets of downtown Las Vegas is the funniest scene of its kind since Roadrunner last boinked the coyote...
...Derek Bok". (Informed sources report this is in reaction to a Yale announcement that it has hired Ken Russell to produce a movie of "Dink Stover at Yale" starring Twiggy as Dink Stover at Yale" starring Twiggy as Dink and Glenda Jackson as Kingman Brewster.) On frontispiece we see CHASE PETERSON (in madras sunglasses) and PREMINGER examining mockups of Kirkland House and Arthur Smithies, recreated on a studio back...