Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie-drawn from Michael Crichton's novel-is the work of the gifted Mike Hodges, whose two previous features (Get Carter, Pulp) displayed a cool virtuosity. There are pyrotechnic scenes-the operation itself being the most dazzling. But the film does not really succeed beyond its embellishments. It has all the depth of a petri dish...
Hortonville seems an unusual setting for an angry labor battle. Immaculately kept dairy farms, interspersed with scattered forests and sparkling streams, dot the countryside. But the farmers and pulp-mill workers tend to be bedrock conservatives (oldtimers still revere the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, who grew up in Grand Chute twelve miles away), and anti-union sentiment runs high...
...Amour's love for the frontier distinguishes him from these pulp merchants. His Indians could have stepped quietly from the pages of Carlos Castaneda, and his historical background has signs of sly humor: "Los Angeles, the tiny pueblo toward which they were sailing ..." Publishers report an increase in sales of western novels after a decline in the '60s, and they link this new interest to a nostalgia for the old America. No wonder, then, that L'Amour has become so popular. There is hardly a better trail guide. · Helen Rogan
...animals get their first taste of eating feed-lot-style. The first meal is alfalfa hay, which smells something like familiar range grass, mixed with a little bit of high-protein feed. Their diet is made "hotter" by adding larger proportions of corn, malt, sour-smelling silage, beet pulp, minerals and antibiotics. The animal's metabolism is soon racing so hard to digest the rich fare that if its diet is drastically changed, the steer will sicken and could...
...PULP. Michael Caine and-yes -Mickey Rooney are superb in Mike Hodges' high-spirited thriller, which spoofs the mystery genre as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye was supposed to but didn...