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...turbine engines for the huge (120,023-lb.) vehicles have been so slow that the Army has been forced to cannibalize the power plants of field-tested units and use them on tanks coming off the production line. Under Secretary of the Army James R. Ambrose estimates that this rip-out process has cost "well over a million dollars so far." Yet a House-Senate conference committee refused to allow the Army to choose a second manufacturer. The apparent reason: members bowed to pressures from New England legislators to keep the jobs dependent on it with the current contractor, Avco...
Screenwriter John Hunter makes the story of this latter-day Rip Van Winkle strangely touching; anyone struggling to adapt to the technologies of the 1980s is bound to admire his good-humored patience with the ways of the world he nev er made. Director Phillip Borsos has an unpretentious eye for natural beauty and an admirable restraint that forces neither the melodrama nor the elegy. And Richard Farnsworth, the former stuntman who was so fine in Comes a Horseman, gives another splendid performance here. Like the movie, he is slight but sturdy. Film and actor compel one to lean...
Another disappointment is the movie debut of model/goddess Christie Brinkley as the temptress in the red Ferrari who leads Chase into all kinds of trouble. The Brinkley character--if you could call it that--is an obvious rip-off of the Suzanne Sommers' blonde in American Grafitti and has about as much personality as--well--a Sports Illustrated bathing suit spread. Brinkley--who is so sexy on paper--is embarrassing on celluloid, because, as simple as her part...
...like much of the rest of Psycho II, it has a certain sly wit about it. Indeed, there is a rather good-na tured air about this not overly scary pic ture, which pays homage to Hitchcock's most famous (but not best) work without trying either to rip it off or knock...
Modern Times is a rip-roaring survey of the pathology of moral relativism, which, the author contends, is responsible for most of the totalitarianism and terrorism of the past 60 years. Immoral acts were certainly not invented in the 20th century. But the worst modern tyrants committed their obscenities in the name of secular abstractions. Writes Johnson:"Hitler was totally irreligious and had no interest in honor or ethics. He believed in biological determinism, just as Lenin believed in historical determinism." Joseph Conrad foresaw the consequences of the unprincipled approach in Under Western Eyes when he wrote: "A violent revolution...