Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cleared a road for his truck through brush that he stacked neatly in a pile -- a future home for rabbits. He once found two baby squirrels while cutting, tiny blind creatures, and took them home to bottle feed. "Gentled 'em so that when they grew up they'd come when I called...
Like The Terminator, the action scenes combine a mix of high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force and execution of the laws puts Dirty Harry to shame...
...minutes and we'll give you the world."--which charts Robocop's successes. The show is filled with such news items as the misfiring of a "Star Wars" defense system, killing three expresidents living in California. There is also a recurring commercial advertising a family board game called "Nuke 'em." And the scenes depicting the building and activation of Robocop combine humor with a biting commentary on modern science's drive for perfection at any cost...
...Bacchae is nearly 2400 years old, but it contains all of the grimness and gore of a modern-day shoot-em-up. The trouble for player and audience alike is that all of the action-violent, sexual and otherwise-occurs off-stage, and director Oleson has few ideas on how to make the play's lengthy, demanding speeches very affecting. Too often, the actors race through their tirades in effort to convey passion and fury; they end up losing their audience instead...
...Then of course we've had a flap or two. The gouging, for one. Say your wife is cooking. It means you get to eat free. But we had 'em bringing the whole family in here for breakfast and dinner. Oh, we had a big flap over that...