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Like the products of such factories in the '30s, actors from the same term-contract stable are to be seen in both movies, as are the same hopelessly unrealistic standing sets, only cursorily redecorated. In the first, a New York errand boy (Harry Hamlin), affronted by a contender, knocks him out with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister...
...parties functioned in a sense like secular churches, with doctrines and powers of intercession, with saints, rites, duties, disciplines and rewards. From wards to White House, the parties were crucial to the way the country worked. The old Tammany boss Carmine DeSapio remembered hauling coal as a young party errand boy to keep families of voters from freezing in the winter. A millionaire political boss like Mark Hanna could install William McKinley as President...
...Russian ambassador, Nikita Tolubeyev, is a member of the Soviet Central Committee and dean of the diplomatic corps, but he is certainly no high commissioner. He is generally regarded by Cuban and foreign contacts alike as a mostly ornamental, rather ineffectual apparatchik and errand boy. In fact, Tolubeyev has complained to his home office that he has difficulty getting access to Fidel. One reason may be that after more than seven years in Havana, Tolubeyev has yet to learn more than a smattering of Spanish. When Fidel wants to coordinate his signals with the Kremlin, he does so by dispatching...
Death Wish. A wet-dream for closet vigilantes. In the opening scenes, the wife and daughter of a New York City professional (Charles Bronson) are raped and murdered by a couple of errand boys from the local grocery. Bronson can't get any satisfaction from the law; this is the City, where things like this happen every day, remember? But Bronson has never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side...
...lively open-air cafes, where it seems the majority of Tunisian men spend the majority of their waking hours, are exclusively male territory. The sex ratio of the audience at movies is not very different from that at the cafes. Few women are seen in public places without some errand to attend to; they are either shopping or walking briskly or waiting for a bus, protected under a safsari and bags and bundles...