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...America, the work attracted widespread attention, both pro and con, but it ran up a deficit of $100,000; to pay off his share, Glass went back to driving a cab. The experience was worth the price. "The main thing about Einstein is that it put me on the world theater map," he says. "After that I could work in the theater -- not at will, but something close...
...title role, Burt Reynolds has somehow mislaid that cheeky brightness that is the basis of his stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose moral code imposes on him a mission of revenge among the drug traffickers around Miami is lazy, dull and told in imagery as murky as its underlying morality...
Taubes' most significant contribution has been "understand differential equations that have been important in topology," said Professor of Mathematical Physics Arthur M. Jaffe, who taught Taubes and then co-authored a book with him "It turns out that these equations have important con- senuences for geometry...
...that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...
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