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...Duel. A well-executed thriller about a lone traveler in a life and death struggle with a reckless truck driver. When a show like this sneaks into my list of "highlights" for the week, it's time to just unplug your set and read or, if you must, just watch the screen. Maybe if you imagine the truck is the Lechmere limited and you're in a Toyota, you can relate to this movie. I doubt it. Channel...
...that he really is the mischievous character that Twain described. In fact, on the contrary, Whittaker's Sawyer is a rather cocky and not always likeable fellow. Jeff East, however, portraying Tom's sidekick Huckleberry Finn, does a much more admirable job of presenting an image of the slightly reckless, adventure-loving boy of whom Twain wrote...
...soft spot at the heart of this picture. But supplied with hard blue language by Writer Monash, and played by Mitchum as a man trying to walk-not run-to the nearest exit, he is an infinitely more appealing figure. Coyle is still hard enough to intimidate a reckless apprentice punk, canny enough to fight a good delaying action against the cop who keeps pressing for more and more information and strangely trusting of an old friend who is a much more clever ex-stoolie (and who finally undoes him). In all, Coyle emerges as a complex and multifaceted character...
Because of the paper's prestige and its objectivity in an American dispute, the Times's thoughtful critique has provoked debate over whether the press has become reckless in its pursuit of Watergate villains...
Only the press and the courts have been consistent instruments of justice in the deluge of scandals surrounding a reckless executive branch. The administration's attacks on the press are familiar enough; by sabotaging the judicial process, Nixon's White House and CIA men have resorted to tactics appropriate only to a police state. It is fortunate that justice for Ellsberg and Russo has been achieved. But until grand juries and Congress dredge up all the details of the executive's involvement in domestic espionage, the American public should continue to suspect Nixon of undermining the very meaning of liberty...