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...more time consuming and more expensive. That fact is clear enough to any ordinary citizen with a tax problem or a difficult divorce, and no one has expressed more concern about it than Chief Justice Warren Burger. His warning: "We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated." The warning is somewhat exaggerated, but some major American cases do indeed keep expanding until they become ends in themselves, seemingly capable of lasting forever. Three classic cases in the making...
Peckinpah does better with the action sequences, as befits the director of The Wild Bunch. His battles - particularly one in which the German lines are overrun - are convincingly hellish jumbles of shouts, explosions, confusion and panic, which he and his film editors capture with a combination of tense, jagged cutting and horrific, slow-motion dances of death...
...hrer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability. "My own hypothesis," says Irving, "is that the killing was partly of an ad hoc nature ... chosen by the middle-level authorities in the eastern territories overrun by the Nazis, and partly a cynical extrapolation by the central SS authorities of Hitler's anti-Semitic decrees." Hitler, the author insists, had wanted to settle the "Jewish question" by relocating Jews in Africa or Madagascar after the war, although when he finally learned about the extermination program...
Mary Richards' age (mid-30s) was also part of her charm-almost a relief after a period when the nation seemed overrun and overwhelmed by the very young. Timing, in fact, may have contributed to MTM's popularity. During Watergate and the long ending of the Viet Nam War, when the nation was feeling especially baleful, these characters in an out-of-the-way local TV station, with their family feeling, may have suggested that it was possible to deal with the world without being either Patty Hearst or R.D. Laing. They became part of the viewer...
...that earns its R rating not by making sin enticing but by making it repellent. In earlier Fellini works like 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits, there was a fruitful tension between private fantasy and social reality. More recently, as in Fellini Satyricon, the fantasy has tended to overrun the reality. Here Casanova does not move against the rich backdrop the historical period offered but drifts through the bizarre misty regions of Fellini's own imagination. The episodes do not make up a narrative of Casanova's life, but a sort of meditation...