Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West's neatest trick, though, is reserved for the end. One of the things that Spada demands, as the price for not poisoning mankind, is permission to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. In real life, of course, he could do so and no one would notice, but West ignores this for the sake of his artifice. The resulting episode is thus one of the neatest bits of whimsical invention since A.A. Milne created the heffalump...
...once prizes majority rule and individual freedom; an independent judiciary remains the best insurance that the former does not steamroll the latter. In the end, that means relying on judges themselves to exercise self-restraint. Few would ask the judges to undo all the rights they have advanced in the past 25 years. Yet, having done so much to change society, the judiciary might now pay more heed to the dictum of Justice Louis Brandeis. "The most important thing we do," he said "is not doing...
...eerie sense of the unknown. His second talent, however, consistently undoes all he sets up. As he tries to explain away the bizarre situations he creates, he falls back on just about every old cliche one can imagine, and manages to make this film as disappointing in the end as it was promising in the beginning. He doesn't just beat a dead horse--he tortures it, and watching The Last Wave, one gets the feeling that Weir is still one giant step away from being a satisfying director...
...disintegrates into stock effects. Chamberlain discovers a secret Aborigine city beneath Sydney, and learns that an ancient white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very end of the film, Chamberlain escapes from the underground city only to look up and see the big water...
Bradshaw took charge on the Steelers' first possession when he found Stallworth for 15 yards and tight end Randy Grossman for 17 more at the Cowboy 28-yd. line...