Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspiring a horror of violence. Brutality in films, asserts Robert Lifton, "can illuminate and teach us about our relationship to violence." The Godfather, he believes, provides that kind of illumination by brilliantly contrasting the Corleone family's sunny private life and its brutally dark professional life. Critic Robert Hatch rejects that view, calling the movie a "chronicle of corruption, savage death and malignant sentimentality" that wreaks harm by forcing the viewer "to take sides in a situation that is totally without moral substance." It was chilling, he says, "to hear an audience roar its approval when a young gangster...
James Caan plays Sonny like the Don without his hatch on: he kills with pleasure and screws incessantly--and if he feels he fuels the fires that protect his family, it's his lack of control that starts a costly gang war that ends in his death. Caan's part is different than the other thugs he's played: he animates his body with a high-strung rage barely controlled. When he lets go, dragging a piggish brother-in-law through the streets and bashing his body with a garbage can, the effect is exhilarating...
...good people--Kael (The New Yorker), Hatch (Nation), Kauffmann (New Republic), and Sarris (Village Voice)--each have an axe to grind, and make no bones about grinding it. Kael has a perversely radical culture-consciousness, loving most those films which, rooted to a trashy crowd-pleasing base, manage to transcend it. Simon is a classicist, and treats film with the same stern regard as theater; his occasional fault is literary pretension. Hatch and Kauffmann retain the social concern of the more serious '50's liberals, while Sarris's devotion to the Great God Cinema is at least more passionate...
...Government originally opened its case against McDonald's by suing two Chicago outlets, which quickly settled. Now, however, McDonald's vows it will resist, citing as precedent the commonplace nighttime differential paid in factories. Says John Hatch, a McDonald's attorney: "We won't pay one cent of back wages without a fight...
...improvised regional offices in ten major cities. In the Midwest, the branch moved from Battle Creek, Mich., to Chicago. In Georgia, OEP-ers transferred from Thomasville to Atlanta, where they found room in an insurance office sandwiched between two topless restaurants, one of them called The Booby Hatch. They were scarcely settled before the telephones started ringing...