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Somewhere along the line, David S. Ward, who wrote and directed this extremely silly movie, must have learned the same rule. Cannery Row looks very pretty, but it moves about as fast as continental drift, and it's a lot less fun to watch. When, after two excruciatingly boring hours, it finally grinds to its inevitable happy ending, we too are left feeling stupid but unruffled. A movie has drifted in and out of our heads, and all that's left is a vague taste of crab...
...economic battles of 1981 were being fought and won, a spirit of unity and purpose infused the Administration. This has now been replaced by a sense of drift and uncertainty, marked by fissures in the troika of top presidential advisers, internecine foreign policy disputes, and ill-conceived actions that are raising questions about the Administration's sensitivity to issues of fairness and racial justice. The President compounded the uneasiness by projecting, with amiable vacuity, an unsteady hand on the tiller of state at his seventh press conference last week. He displayed a disconcerting lode of misinformation...
...expensive trial and error, there were still 10 million unemployed and no real recovery in sight. The Republican nominee, Governor Landon of Kansas, seemed at the time a strong candidate against the fraying New Dealers; even some conservative Democrats thought they must combat what they considered an ominous drift toward the left. (Former Presidential Nominee Al Smith accused the New Dealers of trying "to disguise themselves as Karl Marx or Lenin or any of the rest of that bunch...
...that if Egypt and Israel fail to reach some kind of autonomy agreement by April 26, the date on which the Israelis are scheduled to return the final third of the Sinai to Egyptian control, the two nations will be less susceptible to U.S. pressure. Haig foresees a gradual drift by Egypt toward rapprochement with the Arab world, and he expects Israel to become more nervous about its own security and thus less willing to negotiate. He also fears that if the talks do not succeed, they will eventually be superseded by something else-another Saudi Arabian peace plan...
...Francis Coppola, 42, director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first...