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When not swinging the sledge, Loeb and the Union Leader can be downright cute in their way. After the announcement of Nixon's Peking trip, Loeb invited readers to rename the President's plane. Suggestions included go Mao, Pay Later and DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw. Loeb finally selected Freedom's Futile Flight. But fun and games are not restricted to presidential politics. When Loeb's choice for Governor was defeated in 1970 the Union Leader ran the names of some 15,000 registered Manchester-area voters who had not turned out. The implication...
...monopoly. Competition immediately put the HSA publication out of business.) The president of HSA that year, Andrew Tobias, went on to help assemble several of these outfits into a $100 million student rip-off conglomerate called National Student Marketing, about which, following its collapse last year, he wrote a cute, self-effacing book called "The Funny Money Game." Now he's at the B-School learning how to do it better next round. It's time for Harvard to recall HSA's halo, and force them either to play the game by the rules or not to play...
...movie marks the debut of that unrelentingly cute television personality. Sandy Duncan. She manages such soliloquies as "I may believe in a lot of dead things like patriotism and the Constitution, and I like apple pie, because that's the dumb way I was brought up and that's the dumb way I feel" with appalling conviction...
Because the movie deals in archetypes, it occasionally threatens to parody the genre it is honoring. Harry is so cool, so invincible, he almost flattens into one-dimensionality. Irrelevant references to his deceased wife and some cute banter about his nickname fail to fill out his personality. And because of Dirty Harry's oversimplification, Scorpio's vicious insanity (brilliantly conveyed by Andy Robinson) becomes a mere caricature of evil-an archenemy of Batman playing for keeps...
...Hill's own reluctance to discuss his past, Widerberg's imagination has free rein at the beginning. The New York sequence with its shots of skid row hits harder than anything else in the picture. Still, Widerberg feels compelled to add a romance nipped at the bud and a cute little street urchin who teaches Joe the city's lore. Joe leaves to search for his brother, takes up with a veteran hobo, and heads west. Their journey plays like Huckleberry Finn without the cruelty, and by softening their occasional scrapes with reality, Widerberg weakens the logic...