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...only I could have imagined the scene I'd overheard! If only I could invent as presumptuously as real life! If one day I could just approach the originality and excitement of what actually goes...
Some day it may be a case history in the politics of much ado about nothing; of the latter-day American penchant to be first, even if it is with the least, to launch the presidential sweepstakes; to invent a game if there is no game in town. Welcome, fans, to Florida's theater of the absurd, where on Oct. 13 an unannounced candidate for re-election (Jimmy Carter) is pitted against an unannounced challenger (Edward Kennedy) in a dog-and-pony show without substance beyond what is made of-or made up about-it. A mere...
Becker says he has turned down politicians' requests to use his black box behavior modification. But if he can invent one, so can others. Then there could be messages like "I will vote Democratic/ Republican/Fascist." The black box should be outlawed...
...higher than that because petrochemicals and lead are up more. Productivity? I'm glad you asked-we ain't got none. Sometimes when I wake up, I think of what I'm doing. Yeah, I'm trying to save a company but I never invent anything any more. I never create a job. Everything I do is to meet a law. It worries me for all industry. I'll make a prediction: the auto industry is the leading edge and will be in trouble between now and 1985 in varying forms. There will be other...
...story, the movie has about it the patchy, shapeless quality of reality. And that's the trouble. Soldier of Orange does not wear its slick, Hollywood style comfortably. All that gloss raises expectations of a more suspenseful narrative, stronger melodramatic payoffs. It is the sort of thing storytellers invent but reality rarely provides; the sort of thing that makes even silly efforts like Force 10 from Navarone or the recent Hanover Street seem mildly exciting. Something simpler, more documentary in manner would have suited Soldier of Orange better. As it stands, the movie is unsatisfying, both as action entertainment...