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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lancaster just about torpedoes the human side of Atlantic City, leaving it a film that says a lot about a place and very little about people. It's still worth seeing--if you want to rid yourself once and for all of any desire to visit the Las Vegas of the East. In Malle's nightmarish portrait, it's a city that can never change; no matter how much filth it accumulates, it will always be able to attract a little more...
Malle's characters are always cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing...
Randy's extreme emphasis on weight control has particularly rankled females in the past. Last year, in an effort to get rid of the excess pounds on some his women swimmers. Randy introduced "Fat Patrol"--a policy that forced overweight women to swim 1000 yds. freestyle. interspersed with sit-ups or push-ups--after workouts...
...course, one other school of thought, which I would want to acknowledge...and indicate my vigorous opposition. That is. "Let's keep those schools from being built. That will increase the level of discontent and maximize the possibility of rebellion, and that's the way we'll get rid of apartheid." I think that may be a judgement that Black South Africans are free to make, but I do not think that's a responsible judgement for people sitting in the United States...
...standstill, as millions of Poles downed their tools in the latest-and perhaps riskiest-confrontation with the Warsaw regime. "We don't want to overthrow the Communist Party," Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa told fellow strikers at a Warsaw steel mill. "We only want to get rid of the people who are putting the brakes on Poland's renewal." Specifically, he meant the officials responsible for a police attack two weeks ago on 26 union members in Bydgoszcz. Beyond that, however, Walesa and his comrades were boldly challenging a powerful group of hard-liners in the upper echelons...