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...rage is not happy lunatics, and it always is, it's the area's other cult film, The Harder They Come--escapism pure and simple. Not to decry the nice visuals (some handsomes, palm trees, white sand) and the tunes (however thin the line between reggae and bubble gum), anything anyone says about the movie's political content is laughable: the only idea embodied by Jimmy Cliff is something along the lines of "You Can Get It If You Really Want (but you must try, try, try...)." It's hard to know whether the cardboard villains are foiled by capitalistic...
...crowd of 4,000 in Wichita's Century II convention hall knew every song and clapped their hands, slapped their knees and snapped gum in time to the music...
...sounds familiar enough-like the plot of an old Bette Davis movie cap-sulized in a late-show listing. But Mom in this case is played by gum-snapping Goldie Hawn, and there is nothing classy about the way she expresses her grief or the methods she is willing to employ to pry Baby Langston out of the foster home in which he has been placed...
...park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty windows, leprous upholstery, chewed gum and sticky candy wrappers on ripped seats, and jagged metal protrusions on the doors waiting to savage the clothing of entering or departing passengers...
...none of this has been getting too much attention lately. About the only thing for which people are still criticizing Ford is his alleged lack of intelligence, a criticism that has been made for years. Lyndon Johnson reportedly once remarked that Ford was too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time, because in college, Johnson explained, Ford had played football on too many occasions without wearing his helmet. When Eugene McCarthy spoke at the Law School Forum here two years ago, he apologized for having supported legislation that Ford came out for five years later. "When...