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...kind of Western Love Story in which a hard-as-nails white woman wanders about, and eventually falls in love, with a rather silly young soldier. Candice Bergen plays the foul-mouthed girl on her way to join her fiance, an army officer stationed at Fort Reunion (clever, no?); she has been held captive for two years by the neighborhood Indians and, at film's beginning, has just somehow, inexplicably been freed-though whether rescued from, returned or simply lost by her Indian captors one never learns. She is once again setting out to make it to the fort...
...school, They hate you if you're clever...
Brain Rust. In a refreshingly novel way, Hoot Owl follows standard newspaper style. It has movie, TV and record reviews; it prints a clever pictorial TV log for those who cannot read time; it includes society, travel and sports columns. The tabloid was started by Dane Edwards, 34, owner of a small professional speakers' bureau, to help some neighborhood children. It now operates with a staff of eight (unpaid except for soda pop and snack expenses), a waiting list of 23 and a mandatory retirement age of 16. Edwards and his wife Janie keep their editing and layout help...
...implication is that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were all hopelessly drunk at the Last Supper (and the overall implication that the Apostles were generally out of touch with what was going on) is very clearly blasphemous. Otherwise it's a needlessly clever justification for the liberties Webber and Rice take with a few scenes from the Gospels...
...businessmen are rapidly pushing multinational alliances. The trouble is that there is still no standard body of European corporate law, and melding companies across borders can create enough legal and tax problems to enrich a generation of lawyers. To get around that, managements are busy figuring out clever new combinations that stop short of mergers...