Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cairo (along a flight route that he jocularly refers to as "the Weizman corridor"), the Egyptians had allowed him to mingle with the masses. This time they kept him virtually out of sight of both the press and the public. Apparently the Egyptians did not want the Israelis to exploit the visit as evidence that Jerusalem is growing more flexible in its pursuit of peace; indeed, the Cairo government emphatically denied Israeli reports that the visit marked a resumption of formal negotiations...
Nonetheless. Mitterrand showed no hesitation in making key concessions to the Communists, in the hope of salvaging a second-round victory. Marchais immediately moved to exploit the Socialists' weakness, exacting from Mitterrand a promise to allocate ministerial posts in proportion to the votes polled by each leftist party. In the event of a leftist victory, this would give the Communists half of the Cabinet seats. Mitterrand even agreed to consider Communists for the ministries of Interior, which controls the police. Defense and Foreign Affairs. These were all concessions that he had previously vowed to deny the Communists...
This time his story concerns a young man (Andrew Stevens) and a young woman (Amy Irving) who are gifted with extrasensory perception as well. That makes them doubly interesting to a supersecret Government agency, which seeks to exploit their gifts in the interest of "national security." After the youth is spectacularly abducted by these spooks, his father (Kirk Douglas) traces him to Chicago, where he manages to find the girl and enlist her telepathic aid in finding his son. Unfortunately, the G-men are just a step behind-and ahead-of both of them...
...terribly complicated, but also very exciting. De Palma's staging amounts to a movie-long chase that is witty, crisp and suspenseful. The film ends with terrible vengeance upon all who attempted to exploit these strangely gifted children. That ending does not quite match Carrie's, perhaps because the picture as a whole does not work as powerfully on one's emotions. The reason is that Carrie herself existed in an ordinary milieu, a middle-class high school. The contrast between it and her "talent" was vivid. Then, too, Carrie was such a plain mousy little thing...
This wrought-up lad moves on to higher, wider-ranging transgressions-from biting an usherette on the leg to raping and killing "little Suzie," his date at the junior prom. Yet each exploit is explained and excused by the same hard-rocking ironic chorus: "Well, he's just an excitable...