Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore a Day-Glo blue riot helmet. "You grab four or five, and a hundred take their place. We come to a scene, and people who aren't looting whistle to warn the others. All we can do is chase people away from a store, and they just run to the next block, to the next store...
...loaded up with couches, refrigerators, TV sets?the durable goods that will sell most easily on the black market. Periodically, when a rumor swept through the pack that the police were coming, the looters would break and run. But the police, outnumbered and fatigued, often did not try to chase them. When I left the area, it was burning, the flames taking what little the looters left behind...
According to the 99-page indictment filed against Holzer by New York Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, she stole $824,820 from some of her investors in a variety of deals and issued false records "with intent to defraud." One example: an allegedly altered bank statement from a Chase Manhattan branch in Indonesia listed her balance as $10 million. In reality, her deposits at the time were less than...
Missing are the witty repartees of the Hepburn-Grant tradition, the unique complications that give life to the standard chase routines. It is funny when Catherine Deneuve tries to keep her stolen painting afloat while swimming to shore from a sinking ship, but not nearly as funny as it was when Katherine Hepburn wrestled with her little leopard in Bringing Up Baby. The red gas stove is certainly milked for all its comic absurdity, yet Yves Montand cannot do with it half of what Buster Keaton did with a simple pair of bicycle handlebars in Sherlock Jr. Director Jean Paul...
...result, the dialogue in Les Sauvages is not tight enough, the chase scenes ramble on and on and the characters seem to be thrown together rather than playing off each other for maximum comic peaks. More disappointing, however, is the fact that Rappeneau has failed to correct the sexist treatment of women so common in such comedies. Embodied in such catch-all phrases as "charming" or "crazy" lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes...