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Spending an afternoon with an underprivileged child, tutoring or just caring is a vitally important and wonderful deed--not to be belittled. But it is not enough. Community service programs must also ask why the ghetto is there, why the elderly are alone and why many poor women need shelter and additional special help. A commitment to social change must accompany any serious commitment to do social good...
Horrors! The deed to New Jersey has been willed to the Third Reich. No need to fear-Harvard Pseudo Law Professor Indiana Jones has been called in to find the missing document buried in the stacks of Langdell Library...
...return for letting Duarte Duran go, the captors apparently want, among other things, freedom for several F.M.L.N. guerrillas being held by the government. So far, the government has refused to respond publicly to the kidnapers' demands. The President, meanwhile, acknowledged his personal agony. "If those who oversaw this terrible deed sought to torment a father who is President of the republic, they have succeeded," he told an Independence Day gathering in San Salvador. "They have also provoked the anguish of a mother, the despairing tears of small children, the pain of the people and the shock of civilized nations...
...then, at the last, in greatest torment, he launched himself into eternity by producing a work of enduring literature, a parting labor of memory and language from the man of pure action. Mount McGregor was a kind of archetype of American retrospection: recollection performed as heroic deed. Improbably, Grant became the greatest of the rememberers of a war so morally and dramatically fascinating that Americans have returned to it ever since, generation after generation, as if to a text of inexhaustible meaning...
...difference in plot is for the worst. Clint actually does the deed with his neighbor's concubine, something that Shane never would have done. The portrayal of an ex-gunfighter trying to get away from it all--which was barely believable when Ladd did it--is lost in Eastwood's performance, as he begins the movie by beating his opponents to a pulp...