Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long, slow process," Richard Ogden, assistant regional auditor of HEW's Boston office said earlier this week. The audit started a year after a School of Public Health professor sued the university and charged that federal funds had been misused from 1969 to 1975, and encompasses fiscal years...
None of this helps the film much. The slow pace leaves the Brink's gang looking like the Three Stooges on quaaludes. Falk and his cohorts Paul Sorvino, Allen Goorwitz and Peter Boyle (whose intermittent Irish accent has to be heard to be believed), all ham up their little peculiarities, but things never quite start rolling. The pace starts to pick up midway through the film, when Warren Oates appears as a half-crazed demolition expert whose plans to blow up the Brink's safe with a bazooka stun the rest of the gang into disbelief...
Falk sometimes manages to escape the director's slow pace. His portrayal of the thief with the heart of gold never falters. When he accidentally discovers that the Brink's fortress is no more than a poorly protected warehouse of money waiting to be hit, he rushes out and buys his wife a 100 per cent muskrat coat to celebrate his upcoming...
Dales, one of those rare breed of natural golfers who can grab a club out of the woodshed and start to play flawless golf, caught his drive absolutely flush on the first tee. On the other hand, Fitzgibbons, who is a slow starter, hit a tee shot that followed the trajectory of a partridge stricken in mid-flight by the hunter's shaft...
Harvard successfully killed off a penalty to Fischer as the opening session ended, but the Friars ended any hope of an upset by burning netminder Nelia "Gump" Worsely and her slow-skating teammates for seven goals in the middle stanza...