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...Missouri Breaks. It's not up there in Day of the Locust proportions as far as disappointments go, but the truth is, it's not that far away. Now this is one of those cases where we get to shoot off the same day that the big boys do, so shoot their perceptions--but really, this doesn't look like much more than a bad movie with one wonderful centerpiece. The first main problem is that Thomas McGuane's celebrated writing is stinko. You can see almost every line spoken on the written page as soon as it's said...
...held captive by the S.L.A. The jurors were taken to see the two closets that Patty claimed had been her tiny prison cells after her abduction. The expedition turned out to be a mob-and-media event that might have been conceived by Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust...
...BLACK LOCUST (bark, foliage, young sprouts): depression, vomiting, diarrhea and weakened heartbeat. Often fatal...
...vacuum results and the only principle held inviolable is profit. The population of the Rim has doubled since World War II, from 40 million to 80 million, primarily from an influx of what Sale terms "the discontented classes." Sale advances Nathaniel West's argument in The Day of the Locust: people go west out of frustration, because they are unhappy with their small town existence and hope that in the sunshine of Florida or California they will find the good life that has always eluded them. Such an outlook creates a society where people are concerned primarily with making their...
...Locust, 2:30, 7:15 and Brother Sun, Sister Moon...