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Clint Eastwood has made a career out of blood and guts, and his switch from spaghetti westerns to ultra-detective will disappoint none of his fans. In fact, he has managed to keep his portrayal both serious and believable. As his quickly sidelined partner. Reni Santoni deserves praise for making his lines sound less hackneyed than they were written. Andy Robinson's performance should corner him the market on psychopaths. His demonic laugh would warm Edgar Allen Poe's blood and curdles everyone else's. Adjectives like "bone-chilling" were invented for eyes like his. And the controlled delirium...
...highly disciplined way-making exact distinctions, refining a principle to fit diverse cases-that is the high art judges are chosen to practice. Deluged with 3,500 cases a year, expected to write more than 100 often highly complex decisions, Supreme Court Justices may understandably disappoint their critics. Indeed, many critics (joined by Chief Justice Burger) endlessly urge the court to cut its workload, accept only truly vital cases and take more time for reflection...
...will no doubt disappoint extreme hawks and doves alike because he decides that the law could probably never determine satisfactorily which side committed aggression (too many technicalities both ways). On the often-raised question of constitutionality, Taylor offers no solace to doves. After reviewing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the Constitution and U.S. ratification of the U.N. Charter, he suggests that the war is most probably legal in U.S. termsmainly on the basis of clearly demonstrated congressional intent to help President Johnson pursue it. But after sifting a number of cases, including the events and trials relating to Song...
...blame for the social and economic failure not on the white capitalist society that has rejected them but upon themselves. It is as if no step in the development of his consciousness were worth taking unless his parents can understand it and take it also. Over and over they disappoint him: they are embarrassed with him before his younger brother Jonathan; they even, one terrible time, tell the prison authorities that they're afraid he might be "dangerous to himself." He breaks off correspondence with them in anger, only to begin again, to explain once more our America to these...
...Beach Boys album, we can expect a certain amount of schlock, and, one again, they don't disappoint us. "Deirdre," which tries to justify its lyrics with the pun "dear, dear, Deirdre," sounds like Gary Lewis and the Playboys' "The joker is Wild" played at half-tempo. Likewise, "At My Window" is a cutesy sentimental ballad, full of sound effects of birds chirping...