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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually they end up at a diner, where Teddy slowly takes control of all the people and subjects each of them to similar humiliations. Comparison with The Petrified Forest is inevitable. As in that movie, most of the action takes place in one room, in which a group of diverse types is held hostage by one violent man. Both are set in roadside cafes in the Southwest. But many of the elements which made The Petrified Forest a great film are missing in Red Ryder. The most important of these is restraint. Bogey was actually at his hammiest in Petrified...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Go Home, Red Ryder | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

...end the audience is like the helpless group trapped in the diner, and is treated with equal contempt. Messages are pounded into us without letup--the Vietnam generation turning its violence back on America, the helplessness of women (who do nothing but tremble and bawl, and like Cheryl repeat 90 times, "I'm scared"), the arrogance of power, the sadism built into our society. We are supposed to sit there mesmerized and say, "Gee, I never thought of that," as if we haven't been thinking all these things for a long time. It is no longer enough merely...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Go Home, Red Ryder | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Yale whipped Harvard 33-15 Sunday in New Haven, Conn. Once again Beling demonstrated his superiority when he pinned the Bulldog's Mike Makuch at the end of the first period. Yale gained a key victory when Leigh Tonei outmatched sophomore Rick Kief 9-5. Kief is just beginning to gain momentum after being sidelined through the early season with an ankle injury...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Grapplers Get Dumped Thrice In Season's Longest Weekend | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...This has been a disappointing way to end my Harvard wrestling career because the team had the potential to do much better," Franklin said yesterday. "Wrestling takes a lot of dedication and energy, unfortunately all the injuries this season have cancelled out much of our efforts," he added...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Grapplers Get Dumped Thrice In Season's Longest Weekend | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...first proposal calls fro raising the legal drinking age to 19 for a one-year trial period, with a study at the end of the year to determine whether alcohol use has diminished in state high schools...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Students Plan Lobby Today On Liquor Bill | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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