Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spock, Captain Kirk and McCoy are a distant second to the prospect of black holes [Sept. 4]. What a mind bender! But gee, after all, black holes have a lot of pull in high places...
...Paul Gee...
...wanted the plot to follow the pattern of the original, and anyone who saw that one might be excused for saying, "If you've seen one, you've seen them all." Crusty but kind James Stewart is raising his two orphaned grandchildren in postcard-pretty Northern California. "Oh, golly, gee, I love that home-town feeling," sings Gramps. "People always say hello." Lassie is their pet, and they all spend a lot of time hugging her. Suddenly a baldheaded, mean-looking rich man develops a yen for the dog; she reminds him of his own dead collie, the only female...
...focus of plea bargaining should not be on "spinning the revolving doors of the courthouse." It should be on "the defendant's rehabilitation or the public's protection." Says Chicago Law School Professor Franklin Zimring: "Because of plea bargaining, I guess we can say, 'Gee, the trains run on time.' But do we like where they're going...
...contemplate how little imagination has gone into this effort. The rudimentary plot is set forth in a gee-whiz script that stops at nothing, including the invocation of prayers, in its pursuit of the cornball. The obligatory beach-riot scene is a crude recapitulation of the one staged by Spielberg three years ago. Instead of presenting fleshed-out characters (and actors like Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss to play them), Jaws 2 is largely populated by nubile teenagers who appear to be graduates of the Mickey Mouse Club of Dramatic Arts. When these kids meet their unsavory fates, one feels...