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...filmmakers have given the public what they presume it wants to see--a savage, cynical, off-the-wall, black-and-blue comedy that exposes the scarred, flabby, shot-to-hell underbelly of our country's heroes--our athlete superstars. It says that football players are mutilated, dope addled monster-martyrs who are swept up, wrung dry, and fucked over. One character explains, "We're all whores, so we might as well be the best," and that becomes the movie's warped Rockyism. These writers, producers and actors know something about being good whores, and North Dallas Forty is a grand...
Playful pictures of Sesame Street's Cookie Monster dot the walls, and there are Bert and Ernie dolls to hug. Children frown in concentration as they glue pieces of macaroni to construction paper. An egg carton is converted to a colorful pin wheel...
...cars, houses and shops that line the streets surrounding Wrigley have proven prime targets for the four-bag shots that regularly pass the low wire fences behind the bleachers. There's no Fenway Green Monster to grab well-tagged liners, and the neighborhood kids make a regular habit of shagging street-bound balls off the bats of major league sluggers: souvenirs that come even without the cost of admission...
Mary's version is less moralistic and straightforward. Frankenstein may err in creating the monster, but he commits a far greater wrong in repudiating the creature once he brings it to life. The catastrophic failing is not too much ambition but too little compassion...
...Mary Shelley and the monstrous bride . . ."; the fancy notion among professors that authors and characters " articulate" rather than speak; the impossibly pretentious titles ("Vital Artifice: Mary, Percy, and the Psychopolitical Integrity of Frankenstein "). Pity the poor parodist when such things are written seriously. Never mind. Mary Shelley's monster lives through such fussy attention, just as he has survived all the murderous, torchbearing hordes of ignorant villagers in the movies. The Endurance of "Frankenstein " may be a collection of inert parts, but its theme makes it worth the attention of any reader who is ready to provide a spark...