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...film's social criticism seems largely to excuse Lucien. He starts out emptying slop buckets in an old age home; his father is a prisoner of war and the man his mother has taken in to run the farm won't let Lucien stay home for more than a few days at a time. Restless, Lucien tries to join the Resistance, not out of any political convictions, but because he has a friend in it already and it represents an identity. But the schoolmaster who is the local commander of the maquis won't let Lucien join--"we already have...
...with another lame shot at establishing some kind of on-camera identity for himself. The vehicle he has chosen is a numskull cops-and-robbers piece about a skip tracer (someone who hunts down bail jumpers). Hayes forsakes his rock-performing wardrobe of bare chest wrapped in chains to slop around Los Angeles in a variety of Levi outfits, glowering, guzzling cans of Coors and ferreting out various criminal types. He is called Truck because his methods usually carry a certain violent impact, and "a gross son of a bitch" for different, although equally obvious reasons...
...about the Cleveland righthander this spring. The prospects did not look good. For ten years Perry had baffled National and American League hitters with the best spitball, or slickest greaseball, in the game. Working his way up from simple saliva to sea moss, baby oil, hair tonic, slippery elm slop, Vaseline and finally vaginal jelly, Perry had loaded up the ball well enough to win 183 games, earn $100,000 a year, and be selected as the best pitcher in the A.L. in 1972. Then last winter, officials decided to bounce the illegal but nevertheless popular pitch by giving umpires...
...Last Picture Show. I have a hunch that this thing is going to look like fifties slop when I go back to it. It certainly was fine when it came out, but a lot of frightening stuff has gone down since then as regards that decade, and unless a second viewing proves that Bogdanovich examines the fifties without being into-it, the reject light is going...
...slop. Grind, clunk. Dollars...