Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those contradictions are embodied by the movie's two principal characters, Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken), steel-mill workers from Clairton, Pa., who go off unquestioningly to fight for their country. In the film's first hour, set at home, Cimino presents his buddies sympathetically as average men with traditional values: their lives are defined by work, family, church and a love of sport. What happens subsequently to Michael and Nick in Viet Nam is a paradigm of what happened...
Tested by an insane war, the good old American values become warped. Michael proves a hero, but the emptiness of his heroism leaves him dissociated from ordinary life when he returns home. Nick succumbs to madness and drugs. The two pals are Hawthorne's Dimmesdale and Chillingworth gone berserk. One man's strong will to survive becomes the other's will to commit suicide; a nation's manly mission turns into a self-inflicted wound. The director leaves the assignment of blame to historians...
...more like an invasion by old Scrooge than a visit from Saint Nick last week, as Harvard stuffed administrators' stockings with the 1977-78 financial report to the Board of Overseers...
This gathering of friends is like a celebration of a big event, when everyone around wants to make it memorable and special. The writing team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, authors of "I'm Every Woman," even sang the backup vocals with Khan on Quincy Jones's "Stuff Like That." And the event The emergence of Khan doing things her way, but not alone...
...Paradise on Oct. 26). They're called Private Lightening. I don't get it, but go see them anyway. Also coming to the Paradise are the David Johansen Group on Oct. 27, Blondie on Nov. 3-4, and Dr. John on Nov. 6. It looks like Nick Lowe and Rockpile cancelled out, and boy am I bummed...