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...network??says this cartoon is aimed at kids from 6 to 14. Is that even possible? Well, older kids will appreciate the savvy pop-culture parodies and the heroine, a sassy, tween fly with a nonconformist streak. When a clique of her trendy peers decides it's no longer cool to regurgitate food--part of the natural fly digestion process--she defiantly barfs on a plate of garbage and declares, in a Spartacus moment, "I am a fly!" The barfing jokes explain why the 6-year-olds will like...
...these considerable merits, the film ultimately disappoints. Its problem is an ending that abruptly transports the audience from heightened realism to broad satire. It is a defect that Slap Shot shares with the current hit Network???a desire to present an editorial so corrosive that aesthetics, questions of form and proportion simply dissolve. The Chiefs win the league championship on a fluke, when their last holdout against the brawling style flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind...
...Sentinel system is one of the most complicated ever devised?should be the quiet business of Government: its civilian leaders, military men and scientists. That has not been so with the ABM, as the defensive system is now known. The question of whether the U.S. should install an ABM network???and how extensive that network should be?has suddenly become a national issue that has immense strategic, political and social ramifications for the American people and perhaps the rest of the world. The debate over that issue, warned New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits last week, "could become as bitter...
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