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...protagonists of Badlands -Kit Carruthers, 25, and Holly Sargis, 15-are casual about everything. Holly chats pleasantly with the victims before Kit executes them with the same care and concern he might have for a loose shoelace. Kit and Holly could be called callous except that both of them are far distant from any recognizable emotion at all. They are pathologically detached, macabre mutations of their time...
...narrative out of numbness, but Terrence Malick, a former screenwriter making a fine start as a director, has solved it smoothly. Badlands is narrated by Holly in a swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries are shaped and peopled by popular legend. Kit, to her, looks just like James Dean. Her reminiscences sound like a diary read to a blank wall. She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented it to the yardman...
...sheds a desultory tear when Kit kills her father but becomes quickly absorbed in her relationship with her new, and first, boy friend. She draws a snug blanket of smarmy romanticism over everything. Hiding out in the countryside, Kit and Holly build a tree house and pretend they are pioneers. When they are discovered and Kit guns the intruders down, she watches it all as if he were bagging a couple of animals for supper...
When Christopher ("Kit") Bond, a lawyer from Mexico, Mo., took office last year as his state's first Republican Governor since 1940, leaders of both parties anticipated stormy sessions between him and the heavily Democratic legislature. Bond, now 35, is not only the youngest U.S. Governor but also among the most inexperienced, having won elective office only once before, as state auditor. The salvos came early and fast at the reform-minded Governor, primarily over an issue that is one of the hottest facing state governments. The issue: reorganization of the morass of committees, agencies, boards and departments that...
Momentarily forgetting that he was no longer living in the weightless environment of spaceflight, returned Skylab 3 Astronaut Ed Gibson put his blood pressure kit out in front of him and turned away; he was startled when the kit crashed to the floor. His fellow space traveler, Gerald Carr, was so astonished by the sound of tumbling ice cubes in his refrigerator that he nearly jumped out of his seat. His wife reassured...