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...Rather than offering a complete program for getting America back to work. Newsweek gives a conglomeration of uncoordinated proposals--mostly unimaginative, mostly bad--pulled from an economist's grab-bag that would create more problems than they solve. The solution provides little good advice on how to loosen the grip of unemployment...
Ironically, the movie's most poignant moments center around the older Stetsons (Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley). Both Dennehy and Ashley are superb as parents caught completely offguard by their son's defection to a world of make believe. They cling together as they try to retain their grip on their own values which Danny's indoctrination into Homeland has shaken. Should they feel responsible for failing to provide their son with an idealistic, equitable world? Should Danny blame them for his vulnerability to the hypnotic world of the cults...
...with. But that is an afterthought. While the picture is running, its casual naturalism, its refusal to force any single incident to its dramatic or comic limits, its accuracy of tone, texture and pitch keep one persuaded and involved. For a studio that has been trying to regain its grip on contemporary reality, for audiences that must by this time be jaded by the noisy and moronic farcicality of adolescent life as most movies portray it, Tex may prove to be a revelation. At the very least it is an expert entertainment...
...exhibitions of almost unrivaled technical skills, little seminars in comedy and verbal brinkmanship that can be both tutorials for the trade and, for the paying customers, a standard against which other stand-up comedy is measured. In Johnny Goes Home, Carson is shown doing something else uncharacteristic: losing his grip. Dangling from a railroad bridge as a freight rumbles above him, his arms give out and he tumbles into the water close beneath. Walking ashore, he laughs and says, "If I'd waited another five seconds I would have made it." Historians of comedy, take note: this...
Nevertheless, fiction can often hold a greater grip than fact on the minds of curious students and perhaps the only mystery left to the tunnels lies in the minds of the tunnel operators who don't know why they continue to provoke so much interest. Now, as always, there are occasional attempts to break into the passages, forcing Buildings and Grounds to keep up tight security. Not only are the locations of tunnel entrances kept secret, but also all external doors are locked and doors within the tunnels are wired to sound an alarm in the control room. Any unauthorized...