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Though Feraud's mania never subsides, and though D'Hubert thinks him contemptible, the two are bound together in something that is almost comradeship. The mad intensity of their relationship burns away what in another film would be the excess of landscapes too beautifully framed and interiors too cunningly photographed. The Duellists uses the beauty of the French landscape to comment gently on the frenzy of the men bloodying themselves in its soft fields. In the end, after a resolution of sorts has been achieved between the two men, Feraud stands, back to the camera, looking...
...Diego Chargers. The gesture was made to express support for then-Head Coach Lou Saban, whose family was abused by disappointed fans. Says Goldberg: "By God, the Broncos went out and beat the hell out of them, then the next week, went and zipped Cleveland." A monochrome mania was born. It found voice when Running Back John Keyworth warbled a ditty into a bullet on the Denver charts: Make Those Miracles Happen...
...city bus?have been repainted orange, the police must be called out to keep traffic moving on the roads surrounding the Broncos' practice field. But nothing has been upset as much as the city's image of itself and its team. Bronco Co-Owner Gerry Phipps attributes the mania to "a little inferiority complex that people in the city have. It's their way of saying, 'Hey, look...
...film tries to answer two basic questions that have been on a lot of minds: Is there anybody out there? And, if so, are they friendly? The answers the film provides are overwhelming affirmatives. Consequently, this movie will probably herald a new wave of UFO-mania and will set UFO-debunkers back years (see page one). The one redeeming factor is that from now on, people will be running to try to catch UFOs instead of running away to avoid being caught. One could argue, seriously, that this movie has earned its keep just because it will obviate...
...Before the last number of Pickwick had appeared in its green paper covers, its plump and amiable little hero with his gaiters and benevolently glittering spectacles, together with Sam Weller and his other friends, had become more than national figures-they had become a mania. Nothing like it had ever happened before. There were Pickwick chintzes, Pickwick cigars, Pickwick hats, Pickwick canes with tassels, Pickwick coats; and there were Weller corduroys and Boz cabs. There were innumerable plagiarisms, parodies, and sequels-a Pickwick Abroad, by G.W.M. Reynolds; a Posthumous Papers of the Cadger Club; a Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian...