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Halloween II is in Dolby Stereo, and it's a lavish, epic hack'em-up, the Deer Hunter of the horror genre. The Shape, Michael Meyers, has become a mythic Bogeyman, and he's practically indestructible. He's also a one-man charnel-house--there wasn't a drop of blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash...
Artists had drawn animals, of course, since the bisons of Lascaux. But Landseer was the only painter who ever became a court favorite and a national culture hero by painting dogs. He painted other creatures too-ptarmigans and parrots, monkeys, cats, horses, cattle and, especially, deer; there was a time when no cottage parlor or country hall lacked its framed print of Landseer's defiant twelve-point stag, The Monarch of the Glen...
...series that already includes White's collected essays and letters--proves once more White's claim to the title of master craftsman. Much of the material is dated or insignificant; the pieces that work, though, work so well. Two sketches, one the account of the birth of a baby deer in the Bronx Zoo, the other a description of city pigeons, are exemplary of White's best work. Nature, especially the small manifestations of nature--breezes not gales--and the precarious manifestations of nature, have traditionally been best expressed by writers of this...
...Deer Hunter he plays an American ubermann, an Eagle-Scout of sorts obsessed by the boy's-book values of self-reliance and will power. He's an American hero of camaraderie who withholds himself from the weakening influence of women at the margin of his life for pure commitmentto the mystic bond of men in the wilds. Never defiled by desire, he stays aloof, ordered, and self-possessed, triumphant in his wiry celibacy. He's Hemingway's man, and he's that Dearslayer from James Fenimore Cooper. He's one of the real men you see at the hangout...
...Deer Hunter DeNiro is the Minuteman within us. He makes Americans think in the primitive terms on which our country was founded. Somehow he gets at us, and brings all our liberal thinking back to war games and heroism and the call of the wild...