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Which is fitting, because Gene Hackman paces through this film like a rush hour shadow, mustached and anonymous, sitting in his car playing magnetic chess, inconspicuous in a plain coat and tie. Hackman works wonders with a part like this: when he isn't cast as the big blustering shove-around of Popeye Doyle or Scarecrow, or squandered in a mistake like The Poseidon Adventure, he's our best interpreter of the middle-class presence: not the hero, or the anti-hero, but the unhero, making his own blind...
...proceeding as if it didn't exist. He was, in a sense, fooling himself and, of course, fooling everyone else. But all of us--the readers, the newspaper which published his story, and myself, the person who wrote the story--were willing collaborators in the scheme to shove Robin Starling into an acceptable mold. We were all fooling ourselves...
...Paris last week to address the 18-nation International Energy Agency, Kissinger gave his lagging strategy a shove by appealing for a reconvening of the conference of major oil producers, industrialized consumers and poor countries that broke up in April. The conference was supposed to arrange a world energy summit that the U.S. hoped would ensure stable oil prices and supplies; it foundered because the U.S. and other industrial nations would not agree to demands that the summit also discuss stabilizing the prices of a broad range of other raw materials, which, unlike oil, have collapsed. Kissinger now proposes that...
...touch of England in the colonies? Ah, very good. Henley-on-the-Charles? Pip pip. A return to the grande old days of rowing. Well, amid the flowers, flowing garden dresses, boaters and blazers buzzing around Newell Boathouse today the Radcliffe crew will shove off in defense of its Greater Boston Championship. The 'Cliffe will be facing shells from B.U., MIT and Wellesley...
...show you my cock," the drunk was yelling, "Shove it up your ass!" The woman near the front looked at her children and hoped that the next Three Stooges movie would come on soon...