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...common experience. They cannot even be defended, like the great white shark Benchley invented for Jaws, as projections of a deep-rooted unconscious fear. They carry no symbolic weight, and can be seen only as the figments of a desperately groping but entirely inept imagination-a hack's fever dream. It is difficult to see why anyone would volunteer money to watch this film, but it is harder still to understand why grown men would want to devote a year of their lives to making...
Travolta moved with strobe-lit energy in Saturday Night Fever, woofing his dialogue in a clipped, arrogant, street dialect that matched the simplicity and pant-leg vision of his character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...
...hotel mananger tells Jack, the winter caretaker, a drunk named Delbert Grady, succumbed to "cabin fever" and axed his wife and two daughters into little bits and stacked them in a corner smiles; he's a rational person who's been on the wagon for five months now. He assures the hotel manager that his wife Wendy and his son Danny will love the Overlook...
...cultural imperative that it is . The obsession with setting records is finally inextricable from the human determination to rise above the past." Consider, in closing, another Trippett observation, "The act of dying," he says, "is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people...
Every other day somebody does something that has never been done before. Or else repeats some improbable feat-only faster, deeper, higher, with different equipment or at a different age. The act of dying is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people. "After Sir Edmund Hillary," says Boston Globe Columnist M.R. Montgomery, "you can climb Everest on a pogo stick without attracting envy or admiration." But, in fact, once the notion of climbing a mountain by pogo stick has been conceived, it would not be surprising if somebody...