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...sighting down a fence line and the barrel of a shotgun." But Erks is also a thoughtful man for whom yellowfish begin as a commodity to be hauled for pay and end as tragic figures on a par with the vanishing Tlingit and those galloping gourmets of the Donner Party...
...when weirdness threatens. The next day, as I rolled out of town, I gave up all pretense of a larger goal for the trip than simply getting back home. The time had come for the speed run across the hinterland, to burn off Utah and Nevada and rush down Donner Pass to the Pacific Ocean...
Robert Burns Woodward, Donner Professor of Science and a recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, died Sunday of a heart attack...
...fate of the Donner Party is a macabre legend in the winning of the West. A group of families set out from Illinois for California in 1846. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by an early snowfall, they built crude shelters of logs and hides. They ate their animals and their shoes. But the darkest art of the 47 survivors out of a party of 82 was to eat their own dead...
...toneless and horribly bland. And I'm sorry, I don't believe a man can fly--at least not in the fractured, badly edited take-offs, where the colors stink of chemicals and you can tell that any life has been squeezed out in special effects laboratories. Director Richard Donner and the late cameraman Geoffrey Unswerth provide some striking compositions (although the camerawork is far too heavy on rising and dipping crane shots), but Donner puts them together ineptly--whole sequences seem chopped up and hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype...