Word: kaufman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WANDERERS Directed by Philip Kaufman Screenplay by Rose Kaufman and Philip Kaufman...
Working with an evocative period rock score and Michael Chapman's moody cinematography, Director Philip Kaufman brings off some colorfully overheated scenes: a vicious free-for-all on a football field, an erotic strip-poker game at a make-out party, a racial confrontation in a classroom. Sometimes the ten sion is flecked with humor. When the chief Wanderer (Ken Wahl) and his nebbishy sidekick (John Friedrich) get particularly horny, they go to hilariously elaborate lengths to press the flesh of neighborhood women. The laughs are crude, but in character...
...When Kaufman strays from the book, he gets into trouble. The female characters (well played by Karen Allen and Linda Manz) are blurred into ambiguity, seem ingly to create an idle air of mystery. By adding portentous references to the Kennedy assassination and the rise of Bob Dylan, Kaufman adds a little gratuitous sociology. The occasional stylization of the movie's violence is equally jarring: the gang members are at times so shrouded by theatrical smoke and shadow that they start to look like the pod people in Kauf man's Invasion of the Body Snatchers...
Perhaps it is not too late for judges to restore some balance and to discover that they do share with the press certain common interests, if not a common fate. As New York's Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, has written: "Different as the press and the federal judiciary are, they share one distinctive characteristic: both sustain democracy, not because they are responsible to any branch of Government, but precisely because, except in the most extreme cases, they are not accountable at all. Thus they are able to check the irresponsibility of those...
Antitrust experts are intrigued by Kaufman's forceful insistence that courts should not automatically judge bigness to be badness. That is the issue in the current major antitrust cases that the Justice Department is pursuing against IBM and AT&T. Kaufman's reasoning has yet to be tested in other cases and in higher court. Still, some lawyers find it to be a rare reassertion of what used to be a traditional antitrust rule: that the mere existence of monopoly power does not make a big company culpable under the Sherman Act. In the classic interpretation of antitrust...