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...only recent movie to focus on make camaraderie. In Barry Levinson's Diner, an impending marriage highlighted the special attraction of a night spent with fries, gravy and the boys. In Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, the soon to-be soldiers played pool, got drunk and sang "You're Too Good To Be True" before they headed to Vietnam. For their part, Kaufman's astronauts make imaginary planes with their hands and provide their own sound effects. Then they risk their lives to test an aircraft, break the sound barrier or orbit the earth...
...responsible for the decimation of the caribou herds of the tundra and offer a justification for lupine slaughter. Mowat found, in stead, that man was the predator, that the wolves, besides being agreeable and intelligent in their domestic ways, performed an invaluable Darwinian function in selecting out the unfit deer. All this Ballard shows in images of great but distinctly unsentimental beauty, stressing the contrast between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat character, Charles Martin Smith plays with ingratiating...
...with a taste for meat. The relationship between humans and animals is deep and primitive and ambiguous, both violent and sometimes deeply loving. People admire some animals, and shoot them precisely because they admire them. They wish to kill the tiger to take on his powers, to kill the deer to feel some deep, strange beauty in the deed, a fatal oneness. People fear some animals and devour others. Human teeth are not designed the way they are in order to eat tofu and alfalfa sprouts, but to tear and grind meat...
Tenderfeet will find natives shockingly nosy. The plumber may ask personal, pointed questions of new arrivals. The auto-body repairman may insist on discovering how one likes local living before he repairs the station wagon that hit the deer. A simple request to have the Sunday paper set aside at the variety store may bring on a village history about how things have always been done and will never, if God remains in ruburban Heaven, ever change...
...When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, for instance, authorities looked away while prospectors dug on land owned by the Sioux. The sculptures of Mount Rushmore still speak with forked tongues to the large Indian population of the area. The late Lakota Chief John Fire Lame Deer claimed that the stone faces say, "Because we like the tourist dollars we have made your sacred Black Hills into one vast Disneyland...