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Such pleasantries occupy the film's first ten minutes; then Harry gets down to business. In the cozy village of San Paulo, a sextet of lowlifes, who make the Manson family look like the Cabbage Patch Kids, are being killed one by one by a method delicately described as "a .38-cal. vasecto-my." The vengeful dispatcher is an artist who had been raped by the San Paulo Six a decade before. Since she is played by Eastwood's frequent co-star Sondra Locke, you can guess what Harry's verdict will be when he catches...
...Meese, to whose mind hunger's only a cheat, Some clam chowder popcorn's a holiday treat. Besides, just in case the stuff proves deleterious, We'll toss in some ice cream--the new Gelateria's. And, though her green birthplace his favorite is not, Here's a Cabbage Patch Doll for our friend Jimmy Watt...
Maybe such psychological explanations are mainly pseudo explanations. Maybe children want Cabbage Patch Kids because other children want them or because television says other children want them. Maybe they do not want them as much as parents want them. Or perhaps there are other reasons. A New York Times reporter in New Jersey saw five-year-old Eileen Napoli clutching a Cabbage Patch doll named Laura and dutifully asked the girl why she liked her doll. Said Eileen: "She has a real belly button.'' -By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Robert Carney/New York
...mother fishing out one child by the heel, then placing him back in the river. But eventually it will all spill together-milk, gasoline and water. Two days hence will find the Syrians saying something and the Soviets saying something and Asia will be overrun by the Cabbage Patch dolls. Why does it feel necessary to grasp this information? All the music and poetry in the world, and the mind hungers for news of the Interior Minister of Nicaragua...
...course, the choice is not that stark; one has one's music and the Cabbage Patch too. Yet it is the news of the day that occupies most of the time, filling the hours as suddenly as helium. We may be wary of the press, but we are crazy for the news. Why? To stave off boredom, provide relief from self-absorption? There we sit, behind the page, before the television screen, nestled in the assumption that anything new must be valuable...