Word: fearless
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Ashland Oil Inc. Chairman Orin E. Atkins recently hung on his office wall a color portrait of Cartoonist Al Capp's renowned detective, Fearless Fosdick, Swiss-cheesed by bullet holes. Says Fosdick: "Fortunately, these are merely flesh wounds...
...Thing. A project like this must be mounted with both reverence for the source material and fearless vulgarity. Such qualities are in evidence here, as Damon Runyon characters used to say, more than somewhat. The movie has to do with a biscuit-eyed lovely named January Wayne (Deborah Raffin) who has a thing about her movie-producer father Mike (Kirk Douglas...
...contemporary America and most of its obvious contradictions: a flagrant, nearly frenzied, workaday energy and a kind of moral deadness; a proud regard for history and heritage and an abiding need to construct a synthetic mythology; a sweeping national certitude and the hypocrisy that comes with it. Altman is fearless in his thematic ambitions for Nashville, and it is a good measure of his success that the movie is always fleet and supple, never top-heavy. The director and his talented collaborator Joan Tewkesbury (who also did the screenplay for Altman's excellent Thieves Like Us) find their major...
...added for grave injury done to the public good. We have also modernized these ancient forms with the addition of electrical and electronic gadgetry, stereophonic sounds to amplify the terror, and low sound waves to give sensations of an earthquake... In this way we can transform a bold and fearless critic into a willing and compliant sycophant...
...frame. He has a smooth, unscarred face despite his 18 warring years in the net. (The masks he has worn for the past 14 years have absorbed 30 direct hits.) And he has none of the swagger that might be expected from a fearless goalie. He got cold feet on the eve of his wedding and went hunting in the Canadian Rockies (the wedding was postponed three months). He is scared by flying or even riding...