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Better Off Dead uses this plot line not as a primary force, but as a cinematic exoskeleton under which the filmmaker can pit dueling concepts of American culture against each other. His tools are the carcasses of TSF's past, and the eagle-eyed student can detect flairs of John Hughes' best absurdist work, a soupcon of Risky Business's self-knowing psychological slant on civilization and its discontents, and a brief but illuminating pillaging of Woody Allen's treasure trove of neuroses (cf: post-tennis scene with Diane Keaton on her terrace in Annie Hall...
Also, Dartmouth Coach Joe Yucika will pit his 0-20-1 record against non-Ivy opponents against Colgate...
Sylvia Maxfield, a fifth-year graduate student, was once a student of Dominguez. She says she filed a sexual misconduct complaint against him, charging that he had both sexually harassed her and tried to pit her against the junior professor whose sexual harassment complaint resulted in Dominguez's discipline. Harvard as a matter of policy does not discuss specific cases or their settlements (Harvard's announcement of the Hibbs resignation was an extraordinary exception...
...flatness of the film's characters. The small town is populated with a familiar cast of bar sleazes, unemployed drunks, old women watching from their front porches, and male chauvinist breadwinners who insist that a woman's place is in the home. The mine crew, affectionately referred to as "pit-rats", sit around cracking obscene jokes and generally giving June a hard time for doing "a man's work." While sexism is a given condition of the hard lifestyle that June assumes, it is repeatedly a one-sided charge, an excuse for blaming degraded lifestyles on social oppression...
...Chesters also find they must move from the house which they think is theirs (beautifully decorated, with its own private beach, several balconies and cable television) to the house which is actually theirs (a veritable pit, located right on the access-way to the public beach and with construction going on all the time next door...