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...bash buildings, save trains, and most important, commit assault on people in amusing ways. The cartoon violence in Supergirl is so tepid that we can only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that someone who can fly has to crawl...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Call Off the Celluloid | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Jewison is white, but he has trudged this weary road before: in 1967 he directed In the Heat of the Night, a crackling confrontation between black man and redneck that won an Oscar for Best Picture. A Soldier's Story is his tautest, funniest, bitterest work since then, with a sparkling cast. For this, credit is due largely to Playwright Charles Fuller, whose A Soldier's Play earned the Pulitzer Prize and just about every other drama award of 1982, and to the Negro Ensemble Company, where the play was first staged. Every actor, from Adolph Caesar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blues for Black Actors | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...their convictions? And, aside from the shock value, what was really so meaningful during the sixties about hippies wearing United States flags on their bottoms? The professional anti-Establishmentarian Abbie Hoffman--who did precisely that--held as archaic a view of women, for example, as any flannel suited corporate redneck...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Outside In | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...time had come to "Laissez les bans temps rouler!" Harold Dejan's Olympia brass band, led by a prancer in a bowler and spats, bugled the revelers aboard two 747s and off they went, a "cou rouge" delegation if ever there was one, as one self-professed redneck exalted. They were indeed ready to let the good times roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting the Good Times Roll | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Beer Haul Redneck Express. Burt Reynolds, Dom De Luise. High-speed fun as battling bootleggers barrel down high ways crashing into diners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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