Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast majority seemed to take a surprisingly measured, some might even say cynical view. Noting that the result of the spring 1972 student elections at the University of Southern California had been ruled invalid because of widespread illegal campaign practices, USC Law Student Pat Nolan shrugged, "All these real-adult-world aspects of politics are nothing new to USC students." Michigan State Senior Stuart Lachman put an even finer philosophical point on the issue. "Presidents run the country the way they were used to running things," he theorized. "Eisenhower ran it like an army, Kennedy like Harvard, L.B.J. like...
Well, since the traumas of last June, a lot has happened inside the Press's 79 Garden St. headquarters. And people familiar with the Press as recently as a year and a half ago would scarcely recognize it if they visited today. The "stand pat" philosophy of previous Press Director Mark S. Carroll '50 had run up a deficit of nearly $500,000 in 1971. The Press today, under the management of Rosenthal and the supervision of President Bok's vice president for Administration, Stephen S.J. Hall, has not been afraid to try new approaches and new people. And beginning...
...after the summa graduates receive the pat on the head from Mother Harvard and move out into the real world (some eventually returning to the University as professors to procreate more summas), they run into other summas and spend a night or two over a few drinks recalling the good old college days...
There is a severe irony in all of this, because Pat Garrett was killed, some 20 years later, by the same Santa Fe cattle interests that hired him to hunt Billy. This irony frames the film-or at least it framed Peckinpah's original version, which has been altered, shortened and generally abused by MGM. Garrett's killing of the Kid was only a moment on the way to his own death. This dimension is almost entirely lost because MGM decided to remove the scene of Garrett's death, which originally began the film. There have been...
...changes ordered by the studio are mostly stupid but not disastrous. Even in the maimed state in which it has been released, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the richest, most exciting American film so far this year. There are moments and whole sequences here that stand among the best Peckinpah has ever achieved: a raft moving down a muddy river, a ragged family huddled on board; the final meeting of Gar rett and Billy back at Old Fort Sumner at night, with men moving like apparitions and dust blowing like a rasping fog. The whole film...