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That, unfortunately, leads to the major flaw of the flick. While E.T. is certainly entertaining throughout, evoking emotions by the gallon, you can't help but feel somewhat cheated at the end, as if coming down from an artificial high. For an adventure, there is very little plot and not much character development. Like Spislberg's first blockbuster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the story is strung along by special effects and cute tricks. The scenes designed to choice you up accomplish their end because the kid is so charming, not because you really care about what happens...
Heller maintains that the fundamental flaw of current economics policy is that the Administration is battling high prices by tight monetary policy alone, leaving fiscal policy too loose. Said he: "You simply can't step on the fiscal gas and simultaneously stomp on the monetary brakes without generating a terribly bumpy economic ride." Heller and other liberals on the board would like to see some agreement among the Administration, Congress and the Federal Reserve that would result in both significantly lower interest rates and budget deficits...
...family relations and emotional stability. We have seen enough responsible section leaders to feet sure that our bed-ridden friend is an atypical case. But we have also had enough frustrating experiences with shoddy, erratic teaching assistants to know that disparities among section leaders constitute a deep-seated flaw in the Harvard education, and one that seldom attracts the public attention of the Faculty's administrators...
...fact, Simon's reliance on jokes is the major flaw of the film. The writer has become complacent about his characters, no longer treating them as human beings, but merely as devices. The irrelevant one-liners that he seems unable to control--"In Brooklyn, you learn Spanish first, then English, then Jewish"--dominate the film. Libby and her father Herb (Walter Matthau) spend most of their scenes together throwing witty remarks across the room; the audience comes to expect no more than impersonal humor. When a serious line does pop out of the dialogue here and there, rather than evoking...
KERWIN'S COMMENT underscores the main flaw in this problem-laden film. Partners invariably presents homosexuals as lustful, lascivious, whining fools. One middle-aged man, who, when he's not feeling Benson's thigh and cooing "fabulous" in the most stereotypical fashion, flirtatiously peers through ferns, squealing "Peekaboo!" or "hiii boys...