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...Federalism has turned out to be a Trojan horse for America's cities, a hollow gift filled not with enemy troops as in ancient Troy, but with impoundments and program freezes, with lopsided funding formulas, with broken promises and cynical pretexts and with an Executive budget that will spell disaster for human services and community development in every city in the country." So Seattle's Democratic mayor, Wes Uhlman, complained last week, and it was by no means the harshest indictment, as one mayor after another poured out his budgetary woes to Senator Edmund Muskie's Subcommittee...
...monster Pacino makes him, trapped between his unappeasable self-contempt and his perverse ambition to have others honor him as supreme human being, as King - even if he has to kill half of England in order to stage what he, more than all other men, knows to be a hollow charade...
...such authentic research could not be applied to Godey's characters. His people seem little more than hollow molds waiting to be filled by some Hollywood casting director. In a way this is fitting. In print form, Pelham One Two Three is really only a short connecting ride between the scary movies that seem to have inspired it and the scary movie that it all too clearly aspires...
...entire film is based on the family's tissue of lies. Prior to Anna's dream, Karin and Maria attempt to make a sisterly connection. Maria instigates it; Karin denies, reading her hollow character with a sad and insightful malice. Both finally collapse into each other's arms; but after the funeral, when their husbands take them away, Maria gets back at Karin's initial contempt by reducing their stab at friendship to a "silly little thing." We are left to wonder what a mother they must have had, embodying all their impulses but resolving none, ignoring Karin and Agnes...
...Wordsworth with souvenirs of her continental high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Her dresser-gleams with mirrors, powder jars and pin bowls; glass ornaments flash ever-where--curlicue knicknacks, gold cherubs, and a chandelier like an overturned wedding cake, are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at seventy, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...