Word: semi-tough
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...SEMI-TOUGH...
...Semi-Tough may or may not turn out to be the year's best comedy-there's Annie Hall to remember and Mel Brooks yet to be heard from-but it is without a doubt the year's most socially useful film. Dan Jenkins' bestseller has been slow to reach the screen, and in the intervening years the subject of his satire-pro football's Lombardi era, with all its dark Nixonian overtones-has lost some of its edge. Adapter Bernstein and Director Ritchie have found a contemporary lunacy with the same rich possibilities...
...smartness in it. The acute observation of cult behavior, not to mention the sporting life, suggests painful research somewhere along the way. The picture is, above all, a principled comedy, speaking lightly but honestly about life as it is-and what it might be-in our times. That sets Semi-Tough apart from anything else in recent memory...
Carter continued to emit somewhat conflicting signals, sounding semi-tough on human rights but also urging mutual accommodation on arms. He said he would "speak out strongly and forcefully whenever human rights are threatened-not every instance, but when I think it's advisable." Moreover, he added that such statements, directed at the Soviet Union, need not impair mutual efforts at arms control. He thus rejected former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's theory of "linkage" in diplomacy, according to which different issues between the two superpowers are inevitably intertwined. Still, chances are that some linkage will remain...
Poor Kris Kristofferson. The former Pomona College football star, now 40, pulled a hamstring muscle while playing Shake Tiller, a good ole boy and pass-catchin' end in the movie being made from Dan Jenkins' novel Semi-Tough. Burt Reynolds, a onetime running back for Florida State, is cast as Shake's pal, the hard-drinking, womanizing hero, Billy Clyde Puckett. During the filming in Dallas Reynolds was constantly surrounded by groupies. What to do? Taking a tip from Puckett, he claims he "got 'em upstairs as quick as possible...