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...movie that oozes of sex and murder, and coming up with the notion of nobility in the face of the Abyss. It's easier to picture Mickey Spillane sitting there with a bunch of his corporate-thugs and coming up with the idea for a whole series of pulp thrillers. Maybe there's some meaning lurking in the fact that we were gushing over Sinatra while the French were building the Maginot Line. It doesn't really matter much. If Camus had seen Bob Rafelson's latest version of Postman, it would have inspired him to join the merchant marine...
...Thru selective cutting provides lumber-fuel-pulp for paper...
...different from those pharmacy book-racknumbers with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's the stuff of a million Paramount pictures--drop-points, bills in large denominations, an underworld contact nicknamed El Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money he stands to make, he has wandered to Port Tropique in an existential daze, and becomes a go-between for ivory smugglers in an unnamed Latin American country under revolutionary siege...
...among the nation's most valuable political commodities. As the most updated guide to the ultra-conservative's galaxy, The New Right is the wor'd according to a master of the discipline. Direct-mail magnate Richard Viguerie has diversified and converted his seductive brand of extremist politics into pulp form. The New Right is tailored to become the bible of the conservative movement...
...probably inevitable that Martin Scorsese, one of a crowd of fine young American directors and maybe the best of them, would end up making a movie about boxing. All of the American rituals of machismo apply a fortiori to Italian-Americans; the pathetic pulp idiocy of Rocky virtually created Raging Bull. It is the story of Jake LaMotta only as much as Taxi Driver was the story of Travis Bickle, for Scorsese's new film has the same epic thrust of the earlier one. But where Taxi Driver was about America after Vietnam, Raging Bull is really about Martin Scorsese...