Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mentor. Captain Nathan Brittles' habit of speaking his mind has cost him his career. Now he must retire, and he has ridden out to receive the farewell salute at a half-forgotten frontier garrison in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. There is a huskiness in his voice as he speaks his credo: "Never apologize and never explain-it's a sign of weakness...
Though Wayne stoutly and correctly insisted, "I have always tried to give a true characterization of the part that I'm playing," he was also quick to add, "Some of John Wayne must come through it." It came through most clearly when people would tell him, "Everything isn't black and white," and he would inevitably respond, "Well, I say, 'Why the hell not?' " There was a refreshing innocence, a kind of bravery in that attitude, especially as the power of the Western myth dimmed. His heroes were not like Hemingway's. They...
...Stallone tries to create drama out of Rocky's inexplicable inability to gain steady employment, his domestic foibles and, finally, out of his wife's simultaneous bouts with childbirth and coma. These developments are so poorly conceived that Adrian's brother (a newly slim Burt Young) must dart in and out of scenes to deliver plot information. Once Rocky starts to train in earnest, the film becomes less a sequel than a prosaic remake. "For a 45-minute fight, you got to train 45,000 minutes," barks Trainer Burgess Meredith. He isn't kidding...
...does the relationship between Butch and his wife (Jill Eikenberry), who must, because Sundance is wounded, cease their wanderings and sample the pleasures of domesticity. If, in the end, one finds the movie attenuated and a little self-indulgent, it is still an amiable entertainment, its modesty a relief from a glut of hopped-up action epics...
Congress's sea change from generalized energy skepticism to a mood of "Let's produce" reflects the refreshing new perception in the nation. As a top Energy Department official observed to TIME Washington Correspondent Richard Hornik, "All of a sudden there must be 40 different energy production bills floating around on the Hill. A year ago, when we tried things like that, we were laughed off and accused of empire building...