Word: fistfights
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...Street. He has an obsession with two things--the street and violence--and he seems to have a very real, accurate sense of both. But in his debut, his enthusiasm for his subject overwhelmed any possibility of creating a tightly structured movie of sustained interest. Instead, he presented us fistfight after gunbattle after fistfight ad infinitum, and the final effect was to numb rather than involve us. Because the flow of passion had been so steady during the movie, the "climactic" shootout was hardly cathartic at all--it merely appeared a degree or two more intense than what had preceded...
...politics: "Whenever you're dealing with someone important to you, picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear." He watched, appalled, in the early 1950s as both Jack-still on crutches from his back injury-and Ted urged on Bob during a bloody fistfight with a brawny college student whose buddies kept knocking fly balls into the midst of a Kennedy touch-football game in Georgetown. "They had been trained that way," O'Brien recalls. "If Bob had been beaten, Ted would have stepped in, and if Ted had been beaten, I suppose the Senator...
Born and raised in Michigan, where his father manufactures auto parts, McGuane cannot remember a time when he did not want to write. At ten he collaborated on a novel with the boy next door until they got into a fistfight over the description of a sunset. Now his favorite writers include Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck ("Someone else no one will admit was any good") plus Turgenev, Chekhov and Knut Hamsun. The depth of McGuane's reading can be seen in the sophistication of his prose. "I have been sloppy in my approach to being an artist," he says...
...least expected. He claims that he would like nothing better than a set lineup; yet he has been freely platooning his players for years. He says that he believes in treating players like mature adults; yet he has been known to invite troublemakers into the alley for a fistfight and to break down the hotel-room doors of curfew violators. He insists that there is no substitute for experience; yet this season he is fielding a team so young and green that its players have been dubbed the Babes of Summer (after Roger Kahn's best-selling reminiscence about...
...master of Now Grand Guignol, Alice finally came to the climax of the evening: an execution. After slaughtering a dozen or so mannequins and being overcome in a fake fistfight Alice stepped forward to pay for his crimes. Out rolled a guillotine, and Alice's ugly little head was ceremoniously placed to the block. The snare drum rolled, the audience hushed, down came the blade and Alice's head seemed to drop away...