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...element of surprise is a time-proven tactic in war. In combat situations one wants to give his enemy as little time to react as possible. But Bok is not running a war--he is running a university-- and it is difficult to understand why he allowed the admirers of Hunt Hall so little time to plan their defense...
...think) run out of the theatre mad with lust, ready to violate the first female body that comes along? Ironically, if pornographic films had this effect, perhaps one could ascribe some specious artistic quality to them. Good art, as they say, possesses the power to make you ruminate, react, and reach...
...whole new set of psychological responses in transplant cases are being studied. The recipient is so unique he does not even know how he is expected to react. The heart is the most palpable of organs: How does it feel to have a dead man's pulse? The easy response is any pulse is better than none. But surely there are lonely hours when an organ recipient realizes that he is no longer totally the same...
...Jesuits are in crisis because we are in a world of crisis," says Father John Blewett, who advises Arrupe on educational matters. Indian Jesuit Herbert de Souza observes that Jesuits react to the crisis in one of two ways: "Some of us become numbed while others overreact. There will be a split among thinking men, especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society...
Hackman is fine as the snarling Max. Scruffy and bespectacled, he has a good time hunkering down into his characterization. But he gets in so far that no other actor can reach him. Pacino's characterization of Lion therefore remains unresolved. Hackman and Pacino never really react off one another because Hackman remains too selfabsorbed. The tension between the two actors is tangible and arresting, at least initially, but it eventually hobbles what small humanity the movie might have...