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...Hollywood, where such an ungodly premium is placed on making characters "sympathetic," it would be refreshing to report that To Live and Die In L.A. was a major film by an idiosyncratic filmmaker that cuts past conventional morality, but alas, the shallow characters here do little more than illustrate a theme that would have worked better perking just below the surface than splattered all over it. The film may keep you somewhere near the edge of your seat while you're watching it, and there's some good street-smart dialogue and acting, but everything here is subordinated to Friedkin...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Moldy Melodramas | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...Arabian goatherd, and the complete set is now in my posession. They prove beyond doubt that the Friends of Sisyphus Youth League, led by senior and presumed Trotskyoid Tom Careen, and the Conversative Club, led by senior and presumed Monarchoid Sy Kahane, have aims far different than these shallow impressions indicate...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Platonic Dialogue? | 11/19/1985 | See Source »

...Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. Instead, the 40-ton, 40-ft. humpback whale turned left and headed inland under the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a week he has been swimming aimlessly in the shallow Sacramento River delta 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, a freshwater environment that eventually may kill the giant saltwater mammal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Leviathan | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Paul W. Green's editorial of October 16 ("Hiding Behind Veritas"). One can only assume, after reading this lengthy diatribe, that the price of newsprint is going down. Mr. Green's article, covering half a page, is so full of generalities and shallow reasoning that it is almost surprising to see it on the pages of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Imperatives | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

...tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Head-of-the-Charles Primer | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

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