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Jackson's anti-detente stance and a position on busing a shade to the right of the liberals may have been contributory, but certainly not decisive...
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Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
...revenues and 97% of its exports. During the debates that led up to nationalization, the government shunned emotional rhetoric and consistently rejected far-left demands that it eject 21 foreign oil companies without compensation. For their part, the companies, headed by Exxon, accepted with only minimal grumbling a shade over $1 billion-10% of it in cash and most of the rest in five-year Venezuelan government bonds-for equipment and concessions that they value at $5 billion. Said one official of the former Exxon subsidiary, Creole Petroleum: "Venezuela has reached the point where it finds foreign control...
Luxurious, sassy and a lot of fun, Lucky Lady is very much a movie of the times-both now and then. It is a wisecracking, softhearted romantic adventure in which the major characters seem modeled on movie stars. With the shade of Jean Harlow peering over her cocked shoulder, Liza Minnelli plays a '20s rumrunner called Claire Dobie. Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds, her partners in crime, are like Tracy and Gable, fast friends and occasional antagonists, both in love with Claire. These three amorous buddies run booze up the California coast from Mexico, playing cat-and-mouse with...