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...hubbub Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) have encountered -- and caused -- on their voyages, the Back to the Future movies have moved along the time-space continuum with easy, free- striding confidence. Maybe Marty and Doc (and the rest of us, looking on) have suffered momentary disorientations. But director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale have always known where they were and, better still, where they were heading...
...Then the agent of that loss was turned around and used as a club against them. Einstein's legacy was style as much as substance. The absentminded, frizzed-out dreamer has become the archetype of male genius. "Don't bother Daddy. He's busy working on the space-time continuum." Substitute "novel," "fast ball" or "takeover plan" for the end of that statement, and you have the image of the lone genius. Genius needs a little slack; we all want to be Einstein. In Western civilization, a man is not a man who is not stiff-arming some woman...
...Parker, though, it is not just a continuum--each crew is different--although he diplomatically hedges when asked to name the highlight of his coaching career...
Everything about this latest rage, adds Cuomo quickly, should be viewed as "a continuum. The '88 presidential campaign was full of crassness and negativism. The lesson was, You do what you have to to win. You lie, you cheat. Whatever it takes. But engage in civil discourse? Forget about it. You want to win, you follow the polls. Supporting the death penalty is just the epitome of the syndrome. It's the shepherds following the sheep, without stopping to think about what happens when the sheep get to the cliff...
...sometimes marvelous possibilities. But it has become a rather tired topic. It is almost as hard nowadays to create fictional vehicles capable of reawakening childhood reveries about zapping through the years as it is to invent a scientific instrument actually able to journey up and down the old continuum...