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...with pain killers. Maurice Lucas, the power forward who had provided muscle and meanness under the boards, was locked in an acrimonious contract dispute with Portland's owner. Guard Lionel Hollins, ball-handler and playmaker nonpareil, also wrangled with management; he and Lucas were soon traded. Their running mate, Dave Twardzik, stumbled about the court, a man suddenly severed from a rare athletic symbiosis. Forward Bobby Gross was injured for most of the season, and when he did play was so shell-shocked by the devastating changes that he was unable to blend into the new club. Presiding over...
...Bussiere surreptitiously makes his way through several dossiers, his table-mate tries to imitate him. The noble gesture of the one becomes a comic pantomime in the hands of the other. He chokes, grimaces, swallows with deliberate difficulty. "How can you do this?" he asks. The paper-eater shrugs and chews on. The scene turns in our minds from farce to cynicism. This is the face of The Terror: a mournful man behind a stack of paper...
...Buddy, his doctor and his lawyer--who also happen to be his best friends--set out to find the ideal surrogate mate. And although the advertisements for this film somewhat distastefully portray Burt Reynolds claiming "He wants you to have his baby," Buddy is not about to settle for anyone. The screening process for the mother-to-be provides some of the movie's most humorous moments, including a disgustingly (not sexually) funny scene in a butcher shop with Toni Kalem and an exquisite sequence of events with the striking Lauren Hutton. From the start, however, it is too obvious...
Some genteel mate swapping is suggested, and Rabbit finds himself in a cabin with a woman he does not desire. He stalls in the bathroom, examining the contents of the medicine chest: "He wonders whatever happened to Ipana and what was it Consumer Reports had to say about toothpastes a few issues back...
...Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their play of the same name, sounds like a third-grade primer on Constitutional Law, replete with metaphors for an eight-year-old. "You can't turn the law into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments. But the camera never wanders...