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...usual Hollywood ways. In some respects, they have no sacred cows--Cutter's cynicism gives him the leeway to breach any subject, from the sexual tension between him, a cripple, Bone, the stud, and Maureen, the long-suffering wife, and yet still stay within the realm of a "joke." Cutter is immensely likable, immensely smart, and you realize that what's different here is that very rarely have we seen characters on the screen who are as smart as the audience is--as smart about books, bullshit, and about the days when simply getting out of bed is hardly worth...
This is true of men, women, children, individually and in groups of all sizes. Nations and the realm of politics lean heavily on indirect gesture and charades to convey important messages. Take Secretary of State Alexander Haig's talks in China: Was not his actual purpose to send a signal to the Soviets? Societies signal prevalent values to their members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually...
Sooner or later, for any word lover, the human habit of wordless signaling leads to a simple question for which there is perhaps only a complex answer. The question is why has language, given its unique power to convey thought or feeling or almost anything else in the human realm, fallen so short as a practical social tool for man. The answer is that it has not. Instead, the human creature has fallen short as a user of language, employing it so duplicitously that even in ancient times the wise advised that people should be judged not by what they...
...well as in the passages where the swells up at the main castle fall to intriguing, one feels he is witnessing a compilation of best-loved scenes from the history of the sword-and-sorcery genre, though Chloe Salaman is a lovely and spirited prin cess of this mythical realm. It must be said that the uninspired stretches throw the film's magical moments into high relief. The final confrontation between Richardson and the rude beast, a confrontation in which Galen finally rises from apprentice to journeyman in the dragon-slaying game, is grippingly orchestrated. The sequence...
...public school I was exposed to drugs, alcohol, violence and teen-age sex. I also acquired an understanding of the social tensions that breed these conditions. By removing students from the realm of the dopeheads and potheads referred to by Warren Rushton of the Rushtons' Basement School, children in Christian schools grow up ignorant of our social ills. Consequently, they fear society's problems rather than understand them and, thus, are unable to help solve them...