Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BRONSON is more than a statue here. His character moves, and as it moves it appeals on an incredibly basic level. Somewhere in his bunched visage is a wizened hint of sensitivity, and it beams out in this movie of all others because Hill has found an atmosphere to fit. In hard times, the justification for total selfishness and materialism is just that-it's hard times, brother. Bronson's character is genuine here because the face-the lines and creases and years etched into it-embodies the spirit of the time and the long line of outcasts created...
Casting Springsteen as a rebel in a motorcycle jacket is easy enough-it makes a neat fit for the character he adopted in Born to Run-but it ignores a whole other side of his importance and of his music...
...story out of the Hollywood of 60 years or so ago: entrepreneurs operating with little more than a few thousand dollars worth of equipment and some space in a garage make fortunes distributing movies all over the world. In the cinema business of 1975, however, the people who fit this description are not producers but pirates, who steal prints of popular films and copy them for illegal sale...
...Post was publishing only 48-page editions last week, about half its prestrike size. Reporters found that they had to write their stories shorter, to fit the reduced news hole, and earlier, to meet abbreviated deadlines. "Son of a bitch, I wish this weren't going on," complained harried Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. Yet nonunion workers were using the new composition equipment to produce a fairly creditable facsimile of the prestrike Post, and some of Bradlee's colleagues were less troubled by the siege. Remarked Meagher as two female secretaries tended one of the paper...
...another ... Everything at any moment can become almost anything else." But, while hardly an optimist, she agreed that the loss "does not entail, at least not necessarily, the loss of the human capacity for building, preserving and caring for a world that can survive us and remain a place fit to live in for those who come after...