Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nest at the same time, both managing to land on their feet in a poor neighborhood outside Philadelphia. Al is a Sicilian tough guy, dark and intent on making himself a strongman. He excells as an athlete, making it with the cheerleaders, before getting his face and gut shattered by artillery in World...
...last point of Curley's gut-wrenching 5-4 triumph in the tie-breaker of his third set against the University of Virginia's Harland Stone proved to be the one point that made all the difference as the Harvard men's tennis team opened its '79 spring season by beating the Cavaliers in New Haven...
...students at Harvard University are enrolled in this course for academic credit. Shocking though this might seem to the uninitiated academic, our scenario is not inconsistent with the logic of recent tendencies at this university. Suffice it to mention two related phenomena: (1) the clamoring over-subscription of famous "gut" courses: and (2) the top-heavy enlistment of "pre-professional" (read: "pre-wealth") tutors in the Houses, so as to dampen any remaining spark of misconception that the purpose of a university is to instill a love of wisdom rather than the trades of artisans...
...down, the film has already lost us. The final act of bravery, unlike Leslie Howard's in Petrified Forest, makes little impact, because we have had no glimpse of strength in the character until that moment. The scene in which Red kills Teddy has more cliches, another slow-motion, gut-spilling ballet to add to the files. It is arbitrary, just as it is arbitrary that when Red rides out of town in his new car, he comes back for the fat waitress whom he's treated with contempt throughout the film. The movie turns from sadistic to sappy within...
Such moments aside, The Great Train Robbery is a curiously enervated affair. In his previous films, Westworld and Coma, Crichton has shown a gut instinct for creating nasty suspense. His movies looked sloppy, but fiendish humor and scare tactics helped paper over the visual lapses. Train Robbery, paradoxically, looks gorgeous but lacks bite and narrative rhythm. The thieves carry out their complex scheme in a series of repetitive, evenly paced sequences, most of which involve the hijacking of keys to a safe. When you've seen one key theft, you've seen them all. The robberies...