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...adventure of the San Francisco cop who finds nothing but bureaucratic blundering above him and unpunished crime all around him shows Clint Eastwood's creation in a mellow mood. Oh, he can still total a liquor store in the course of rescuing hostages, and he still has the fastest lip in the business when backtalking a superior. But in The Enforcer, Harry appears halfway along the road to becoming a lovable old curmudgeon...
...palms off the best image of the '50s spy I know--there are whole dance halls in London filled with his knitted-tied and bobby-soxed followers. His music epitomises his adopted era: scholocky lyrics about love and a family and monagamy delivered with a nasty curl of the lip and an ugly anger beneath it all. Bryan Ferry sings love songs about hate undiscriminately directed. I await his version of "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" with interest. If that sounds like it might fit the bill, but "Viva! Roxy Music!" or Bryan Ferry's "Let's Stick...
Professors connected with the East Asian Research Center and University administrators have maintained that the grant carries with it no "strings" or political obligations. But given the apparent link between the KTA and the Korean government, more than just lip service to this absence of ties is needed. At a very minimum, a full disclosure of the aims and uses of the grant money should be made, especially until Harvard receives the as-yet undelivered portion of the money. The use of the grant money should be monitored by the University continuously, and the grant program should be terminated...
...escape. I clawed at the door like the dog I was and suddenly found myself chained with nary a stitch but my Mr. Slim plaid boxers to keep her from discovering my religion. A wild fire crossed her face, singeing her moustache. Faint moisture glistened on her quivering upper lip and she swung toward...
While De Laurentiis' technicians pay lip service to the original special effects of Willis O'Brien, their disdain for the old stop-motion techniques is thinly disguised. It saddens me that many superb technicians of stop-motion animation have found it increasingly difficult to work. The rationale has been that the slow, painstaking process of frame-by-frame photography has grown prohibitively expensive...