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...action begins with Varlam's funeral, which is soon followed by the appearance of his corpse in the family garden. He is reinterred, but reappears several times before the authorities capture the offending grave robber, a woman whose parents had been arrested and killed by Varlam, and take her to trial. Her testimony, studded with flashbacks and Fellini-like dream sequences, tells the story of Varlam's brutal reign. There are false denunciations, mass arrests and mad ravings by the tyrant, who utters such Newspeak absurdities as "Four out of every three persons is an enemy of the people...
...power must come responsibility. Teams which cannot operate profitably should recieve apropriate municipal funding. Failing that--and only failing that--they should be allowed to move. It is time sports owners were stopped from jerking the public around with impunity. Until they are made to face the music, the robber barons who own professional sports franchises can congratulate themselves for devising one of the most slimy and ingenious money-grubbing scheme since investment banking...
Nolte, on the other hand, is perfectly suited to his role. As in Down and Out in Beverly Hills and 48 Hours, he brings a tongue-in-cheek toughness to his part. This role, with its curious contradictions--armed robber, loyal buddy, plagiarizer, and playwright--is well-suited to Nolte's self-irony...
...Except for the fact that he was obviously notcollege-age, he looked normal," DelaRosa said. "Itdidn't occur to me that he was a robber...
...Bank Robber Daniel Candelairo had just sprinted out the door of California Savings & Loan in Oakland last summer, when his getaway was rudely interrupted. The bundle of cash he had stuffed into his pocket had been booby- trapped with a security device. The wad exploded, disrupting the hapless thief's escape and causing second- and third-degree burns around his genitals...