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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...
...Pasteur Institute has not yet documented its find in scientific publications. Partly for that reason, some scientists still kept their eyebrows raised. How, they asked, could anyone be certain that he had anticipated all the mutants that resourceful nature might produce? It may take five years, they concluded, to prove the institute's claim that this was indeed a "revolutionary discovery...
...Vonnegut Statement is any indication of the trend, the assistant professors who are making the assignments are busy petrifying the work of this folksy fatalist into critical stepping-stones to tenure. The book's lengthy bibliography-which should prove finally that Vonnegut is no longer a neglected writer-lists scores of articles, reviews and scholarly probings about him. There are even five doctoral dissertations, including something called "Quick-Stasis: The Rite of Initiation in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut...
Just about everyone in Houston had doubted he would ever make it to the launch pad-everyone, that is, except Slayton. Determined to prove that he was physically fit, he continually worked out in the astronauts' gym, jogged across the sprawling space center (inexplicably, the heart irregularity always vanished after a good run) and kept up his piloting skills by flying with other astronauts in dual-control jets. Over the years, he also consulted prominent cardiologists, including Paul Dudley White. All for naught; though the irregularity did not recur for months at a time, it inevitably came back. Then...
...close to each other as possible and yet not touch. Lenny passes the test, which scholars have discovered was sometimes required of clerical novices in the Middle Ages, who had to spend a night in the same bed with an unclad nun and resist all temptations in order to prove their piety. The point of such an exercise in this film, aside from the injection of cheap suspense into a sagging plot, is as yet unknown...