Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the treatment of Fats displays considerable creativity. The camera photographs him like a real person, so that he seems to change expression and even react to individual lines. His presence enlivens the generally charmless Magic, though not even he can save the unhappy and unsatisfying climax. Somebody -- or several somebodies -- blundered badly with this film. The most intelligent thing in it is the dummy...
...crime wave that keeps two out of every five citizens behind locked doors after dark. America, surfeited with crime, looks for a real solution. Charles Silberman's Criminal Violence, Crimal Justice strips away the cant, provides the hard facts, and finally makes it possible to think about, instead of react to, the problem of crime...
While justifiably proud of their victories, the Republican winners conceded that they had been helped by their opponents. "The D.F.L. didn't know how to act without Humphrey," observed Senator-elect Durenberger. But he predicted: "It's going to take a few years for the D.F.L. to react to the loss of Hubert, and then it will be back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed...
Thus, it is no surprise to see Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire react with riot police, mass arrests and full-page ads in The New York. Times which decry anti-nuclear protesters as soldiers for an un-American way of life--neo-Communist purveyors of revolution. Perhaps for the first time in his life, he is right...
...else it's Mel Brooks. I was trying to point out people's lack of concern with tragedy that is not their own--and rightly so, since it's the only way we can survive. The people in the film are like those in the audience--and they react the same...