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...there are some good, quick comic bits among the gang in the station house, an interesting doomed romance between Newman and a Puerto Rican nurse (Rachel Ticotin), and some all right, brutal but brief action. Beyond that, the movie takes a liberal attitude toward its milieu, falling neither into despair nor into the tough-minded rightist posturing that marks most police epics, which tend to be cut along the Dirty Harry bias...
Grady Hillman, current manager of Texas Circuit, attributes a radical influence in the work of the regional poets to Russian dissident Konstantyn Kuzminsky, whose work is freed from restraining traditions in structure as well as content, jarring the scene's academic milieu, always reluctant to be flippant with the established forms of the classics. Kuzminsky's work has been published in numerous books and journals around the world, and his life and work were illuminated in the Autumn '76 issue of the French magazine Parler, which dedicated that volume to his creative struggles and accomplishments. He also co-edited Apollo...
...World students. As one student leader said, right now the University environment for Third World students is "not neutral," because they must adapt to a primarily white environment. A center would serve the entire community as a cultural, educational, social and--though some administrators may not approve--a political milieu. And students should have control of the center's governance, with the administration in a supporting role, helping the center overcome whatever obstacles it faces...
...sense of style; Writer Kleinschmitt pencils in obscenities for his characters to spout instead of lines that the actors might savor delivering. Neither Dern nor Ann-Margret is ever able to get into character. They try gamely, but they remain sociological abstractions pasted into a tasteless, materialistic milieu that has been overexplored by novelists and moviemakers...
...house in Georgia. He will then retire to the newfangled splendors of Carolina and "begin a new life in his garden home in Emerald Isle Estates, watch Monday-night football, do isometrics in the family room, drive to Highlands with his wife to attend Miami-style auctions." This milieu is perfect for pleasant shallow people like the young jumpsuited minister who invites Will to an ecumenical religious retreat: "A weekend with God in a wonderful setting ... That's the bottom line...