Word: shacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Thompson meets up with Laszlo and Billy four years after the lad's conviction, the two have become gun-running revolutionaries, holed up in a shack somewhere in southern California with a small army of violent Chicanos. At this point, Where the Buffalo Roam almost makes a statement about how injustice breeds violence and corrupts the concerned and the innocent. But Laszlo and Billy are so two-dimensional the message falls flat. Laszlo seems merely to have reached a new plateau of raving fanaticism and Billy becomes the standard Victim of Society. Worse still, this hideout scene quickly degenerates...
...Third Wave doesn't have nearly as many interesting laser-household-pets, deep-sea-wheat-fields, radio-shack-rocket-to-the-moon-kit predictions. Instead it offers a thorough compendium of every social critique ever raised. Ever hear anyone discuss the demeaning, unfulfilling work done in the world's factories? Sure you have. Well, Toffler has too, and he repeats it in ingratiating detail, describing the steel foundry he once toiled in. "I swallowed the dust, the sweat and smoke of the foundry. My ears were split by the hiss of the steam, the clank of the chains, the roar...
...foraging bear, started to nibble on the lines. Getting all the electronic gadgetry installed was no snap. Says Marvin Bader, ABC sports director of special projects: "It's a small town. There's one hardware store, one lumberyard, and for electronics, you've got Radio Shack...
Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias must share the blame for The Jerk's tedious and disjointed script, which features Navin as the adopted son of poor blacks in Mississippi who leaves his family's shack to "find himself" in St. Louis. Navin, the Jerk, lacks any semblance of social grace or intelligence; it is all too evident from Scene One that he will trip over any wild 'n crazy opportunity that might chance to extend its foot. Good idea (Jerry Lewis pumped it for a lot of mileage), but Martin, Gottlieb and Elias fail miserably in attempting its execution...
...room was pushed back for dancing. Hill people arrived from lumbering outposts, such as Shenanigan Flats, Timbuctoo, Challenge and Strawberry Valley. Carrying plastic wine glasses, they poked their heads into the X-ray area, the pharmacy and the psychologist's quarters. They wandered through the cook's shack, now transformed into a dentist's office. And they studied twinkling, gyrating machines in the laboratory, formerly a fire fighters' shower room...