Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans, who have been led to believe that crime (real or fancied) and punishment in the Soviet Union is largely a matter of the midnight knock on the door and a hasty trip to a labor camp, such cases at first glance will not seem very surprising. But in fact the U.S.S.R. has an elaborate and, on the surface, enlightened legal code that -since the days of Stalin-has customarily been followed. One of the fascinations of Courts of Terror is its depiction of a government in the tortuous process of subverting its own laws for reasons of propaganda...
This is an idea-for-idea, character-for-character, and sometimes even shot-for-shot knock-off of Jaws. The major differences are that the location has been changed from the ocean to a national forest, and the character in the title role shambles instead of swims. The original has been copied even down to minor details. Jaws Author Peter Benchley, for instance, had a cameo role in the film as a television newscaster. Here, Co-Scenarist Harvey Flaxman shows up as a reporter, pressing Hero Christopher
...Flesh may be corruptible, and Author Elkin's spendthrift talent some times threatens to knock the bottom out of the word market entirely. But The Franchiser has what few novels have any more: the ability to astonish and delight and a totally conscious hero who proves that the unaudited life is not worth living...
...degrading and sometimes adventurous experience. The rule is that if you see a line forming, you immediately join it and only inquire then what is being sold-choice items go too quickly to hesitate. The KGB is sullenly omnipresent, of course, though Soviets no longer fear so much the knock in the middle of the night. The people possess a highly developed, anarchic talent for beating the system. They arrange paper marriages so that a man or woman can get legal-residency documents for Moscow, widely considered the most desirable place in the Soviet Union to live. (The capital gets...
...That win was nice," Reiner said yesterday. "We were tired of hearing how great Princeton was." How exactly did Harvard manage to knock off the mighty Tigers? "We're a really together team and we have a lot of confidence in each other," asserted Reiner. "Most of us went out there and played the best we know...