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...genres require. You would hope for a great deal more from his best movies--the best, even, of this limited, specialized kind--than Carpenter may be capable of, but Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 are such neat packages of self-acknowledged hokum that it is difficult to resent or condescend to them. Compared to the slackness and swaggering middlebrow pretension of recent thrillers like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Last wave, they are remarkable for their stringent suspensefulness, their fundamental lack of conceit, the inventiveness of numerous details and situations, and a sharp, reverberant visceral twang...
...hard to resent. No one's happy about it, but it's a fact of life, "James V. Feinerman, a third-year law student said yesterday...
While most students−as well as owners of bars in college towns−resent the change in the age limit, a few have learned something from it. Says Ann Willis, 20, a student at the University of Michigan: "We used to always have a couple of beers before going anywhere. Now we don't and we're having just as much fun. It was kind of a surprise...
Most P.G. policemen resent the attention the trial is casting on their department. They feel they are being unfairly scrutinized and see themselves as victims of bad press and an uncooperative black community, the target of instigators looking for a cause...
...pitilessly consistent democracy, judges would not be making law at all," said Judge Learned Hand. Why, then, he wondered, do people not resent it when they do? That was 35 years ago, when judges were for the most part more restrained about making new law than they are now. Today many Americans do resent an ever-more-activist judiciary. Beware, warns a vocal group of scholars: the Imperial Presidency may have faded, but now an Imperial Judiciary has the Republic in its clutches. The fear, as Constitutional Scholar Alexander Bickel once expressed it, is that too many federal judges view...