Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-conscious importance of the film produces a rather queasy feeling, for really this story is no more than a crude exploitation - decked out with our latest scientific finery - of what amounts to a penny dreadful fantasy. If you stop and think about it, even if there were a nest of Nazis hiding out in South America, most of them would be pushing 80 by now, and quite incapable of the exertions required by this farflung, not to mention farfetched plot. You can't escape the thought that the largest danger they present these days lies...
...eleventh-floor offices of Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and about 100 top-ranking city employees. Since the offices had not been redecorated in 25 years, the city council had no hesitation in finding money in the 1978-79 budget of $1.5 billion to feather the mayor's nest. Extravagant? "I don't know a damn thing about carpeting," says Young. "Whether it comes from New Zealand or Brazil, I don't care." The man just knows what he likes...
...said he thought instructing students with backgrounds unlike those of Harvard students provided an enlightening change. He also appreciated working in a situation where he could have more impact on the curriculum and individual courses than he could at Harvard. "Harvard is a bit like a nest--things are already set; there is already a framework to which you can only add," Kafatos said...
...Brenda Morgenstern: she is a sassy, overweight Jewish woman who is luckless with men and still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate. Since we never understood why they were close friends in the first place, it is impossible to care about the seemingly arbitrary squabbles that follow...
...effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...