Word: reeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolutely suburban home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tyne (Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin), who come to the tardy realization that their daughter has skipped. Tyne and his best friend (Tony Harvey) set out to track her down. They stumble into a local bar, get loaded and reel home, where they have a generous number of nightcaps with their spouses and generally make asses of themselves. Rather clumsily the less-than-novel point is made: parents are self-centered hypocrites who worry about their daughter's taking drugs while they numb themselves nightly with booze...
Ensign, along with Richard R. Baxter a Harvard law professor, and A. Frank Reel, a New York attorney, evaluated the importance of war crime trials at a forum sponsored by the Harvard International Law Club...
...apply the Supreme Court decision against Yamashita in 1946 to the present situation in Vietnam," said Reel, the defense attorney for Yamashita, "General Westmoreland and even President Johnson are guilty of committing war crimes...
These reversals amount to a "last-reel syndrome": you can get away with anything, so long as everything turns out all right in the end. We resist these endings now, just as one feels the people involved in the movie must have resisted their necessity. In a sense, we know better-Dietrich wouldn't have followed Cooper, just as gangsters (Cagney in Public Enemy or Muni in Scarface) don't have to die-and we ignore the insistence of the censors on "just retribution...
...train wreck, for example-but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful. It is mostly a replay of familiar fare: John Wayne flirts with the girls, keeps the hot-blooded younger fellers in their place, and finally goes up against the bad guys in the last reel...