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Milton Katselas' direction of Red Ryder does not serve Medoff well. As anyone who saw Katselas' Report to the Commissioner knows, he likes to let actors chew up the scenery. Gortner's portrayal of Teddy is as overblown as Michael Moriarty's star turn in Commissioner, he is such a bundle of stylized theatrical tics that Teddy's unpleasantness never becomes psychologically interesting. He is just a shrieking, obnoxious madman, an unintentional Mad magazine parody of Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon...
Crichton departs from the formula in only one respect: whenever possible, he forces gratuitous cruelty between cliches. Dogs chew rats. A prisoner escaping from Newgate slices up his hands climbing the fence. Connery later strangles this poor innocent in cold blood. The funniest gag in the movie involves a decomposing cat. Nothing new for this butcher. In Crichton's Westworld, the most satisfying fantasies are also the bloodiest--robots blown to bits; one remembers brains being sliced up, organs flung about, dead bodies on dissection tables in Coma; now, Crichton gets his kicks injecting sadism into kiddie-movies. Bleah...
...usual, Rheinbraun's resettlement teams have been at work well in advance of the company's Krupp-built Bagger, monstrous earth removers that are two football fields long, four stories high, and can chew up 200,000 tons of earth in a day. The Hambach pit (named after a nearby village) will mean the loss of four communities with a total population of about 10,000. A number of villagers are vocal about the loss of their homes and what they consider inadequate compensation offers by Rheinbraun. Says Gerhard Heyden, a schoolteacher in the doomed town of Lichsteinstrass...
...John F. Kennedy's closest friends, once wrote that "History will best judge Kennedy in calmer days when time has made the tragic and the grotesque at least bearable." These words indicated Bradlee's healthy disrespect for historians. After all, they are predators to trade. They pick and chew over great lives and great events. As time passes, the pendulum swings and historical opinion changes...
...philosophy that students and staff were part of the same Harvard community, and he could relate to the lowest of the supporting staff," one kitchen worker said. "Bok looks by you when he walks, and Pusey would say hello to the lowliest worker. Pusey would and could chew you out, but he approached you as a human being," the worker added...