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...inspiring. Making his energy program work, Carter said, "will demand the best of us, our vision, our dedication, our courage and our sense of common purpose." The President told his audience he expected little applause?and he was not disappointed. He was interrupted, however, when he took a poke at the oil companies, declaring: "I happen to believe in competition, and we don't have enough of it right now." He held out the threat of divestiture?a bull-baiting word among the big oil companies?if data he sought from the companies showed that antitrust laws were being flouted...
There are several other weapons Emmerich has in his arsenal. He cites Dawkins' use of an analogy he borrows from a science fiction story, without explaining why and how Dawkins used it in the slightest. After doing so he uses this analogy to poke fun at Dawkins. This is a nifty technique for making someone look bad but it isn't very helpful to those who want to know what the book is about...
Although I may not have made it clear enough in my review, I did catch on to the intended point of most of these shorts: to poke a little absurdist fun at sexual taboos. But my point was that even as satire some of these films, although harmless, do get pretty offensive [in the same way I think spoofs in the National Lampoon, and films like Network go too far]. And it was precisely because I assumed that the need to debunk sexist attitudes, although unfortunately not "universally understood," is at least recognized by many filmgoers in Cambridge, that...
...matter which side they were on. These types even had their own special language, and Marlowe was a professor of it. He never stopped being a loner, but it always helped to know that next day would bring another hood to trade insults with and another city cop to poke...
...anachronistic misfits with absurd jobs and lifestyles, it's not because they are misfits, but survivors. They are guardians, and if the flame glows a bit dimly at times, well, there's always hope for the child Jonah. The movie would border on the maudlin if it didn't poke fun at itself and bourgeois society constantly. When Jonah turns at the end of the film and smiles impishly at you, the sunshine that gleams through this movie and smiles in general reaches out a hand. Recommended twice...