Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gotta do is sit there and steer, right?" Yeah, just try it, buddy...
...letdown. You had all that adrenalin--didn't you get excited, especially considering "all ya gotta do is steer?" But hey, it was no sweat, right? Nothin' to it, right...
...kind of reverse psychology," he said, but if you try too hard for the dangling carrot out in front of you, all you do is spend your energy too fast too soon; and when it comes time to get the carrot, you can't do it. You just gotta learn to have patience," he explained...
...tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President's Men and the Parallax View, conveys the someone-is-always-watching-you motif with incomparable creepiness. Donald Sutherland is an intelligent, if pallid detective, but the protagonist is Jane all the way, the frustrated hooker trapped...
That's right, folks, the Chuck. Forget the MDC police. Forget the frostbite. When things get desperate, you've gotta go for it. Maybe the varsity should play their games there, too. Can you picture it--bonfires and kegs on the banks, Jim Trainor blasting one over the net and all the way down to Weeks Bridge...