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Walter Hill, the director and co-author, arranges interludes of repartee between Nolte and Murphy that round out their characters in a way that hours of gunfight scenes can not. For example, Murphy is introduced brilliantly: as Nolte walks down the rows of cells in a jail, he hears someone...
Because Hodgkin's type of abstract flatness admits the eye some way into the picture and identifies the surface as an imaginary opening, it has nothing to do with the idealized flatness of '60s American color-field painting. It hovers on the edge of scenic recognition, tricking the...
The billion-plus total comes to nearly one-quarter of the human race. If all Chinese stood in rows four abreast, 6 ft. apart, and marched through Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace at a steady pace of 3 m.p.h., it would take more than ten years for them...
Something about the bottle, about the bright red cap snappy as a frontier bonnet, and the white cotton cloud showing through the translucent plastic, and the label, wide and snug, and the staunch lettering of EXTRA-STRENGTH, the whole shape of the thing comforting, like an old-fashioned milk bottle...
I combed my hair in the President's bathroom, a convenient cubicle with rows of electrical outlets installed when Lyndon Johnson once found electrical devices plugged into all the existing ones. As I looked at myself in the mirror, I wondered if I had aged so much as President...