Word: intrinsice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shake Hands With the Devil. Imagine James Cagney in the unlikely role of a professor at the College of Surgeons who doubles as a leader in the Irish Revolution. That's only a minor problem for this film. The dialogue, the direction, and the gratuitous sexual innuendo all work hard...
I am particularly repelled by his comment concerning lectures. Mr. Muller seems to assume that every lecture has an intrinsic logical thread which any mature student can discern even if the lecturer's delivery is unintelligible. Superficialities aside, Mr. Muller apparently contends that the proper role of the student is...
Galy's transformation is thrust upon hits because the soldiers fear annihilation by their brutish sergeant, Bloody Five, whom pleasure is in others' punishment. Though his bluster and machismo parody his he-man style, Bloody Five is in truth as cruel as his nickname. His power overwhelms everyone but the...
Not everyone in the land of Supermoney is a villain. For instance, there is Warren Buffett, manager of a private investment fund that grew to $105 million at the incredible appreciation rate of 31% compounded annually over 15 years. Buffett was not exactly one of your Wall Street hotshots. Headquartered...
These sorts of hyperbolic vignettes are piled one stop the other without logic or order. Russell has no intrinsic rationale for his boned-up effects. It's pure Hollywood chi-chi. The movie lasted less than a week in Boston. Consider for example a scene of Sophie and Henri husting...