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...this way: the boys have credentials. So of course Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (glorious, goofy title) will be a summer smash. Of course this new adventure, second in the series that Executive Producer Lucas and Director Spielberg began with Raiders of the Lost Ark, will provide sophisticated, if largely familiar pleasures to a few hundred million moviegoers. Of course Temple of Doom, a crackerjack swash of voodoo and derring-do, will create demand for another sequel...
...soothe the guilty consciences of liberal Harvard students and "morally purify" their university. This is what divestment is about, and this is why the campus fake-leftists did their best to drown us out when we took the opportunity between speeches to chant "Black Labor is the key to smash apartheid slavery" and "Put Botha on the run, ANC fighters need Russian guns." I might add that at an April 6 demonstration at Tufts University to protest the scheduled appearance of Henry Kissinger there, the demonstration organizers scheduled two open-mike sessions to allow different groups the opportunity to express...
...would have been room, even in two hours, to pursue a coherent examination of these characters in relationship to each other and to the events that transform their lives. This kind of thing, emotions under claustrophobic pressure, is precisely what Director Roger Donaldson, a New Zealander, did well in Smash Palace two years ago. Instead, time is misspent on the allegedly exotic sights, rites and sexuality of the South Seas natives. Toplessness aside, he visualizes them pretty much as directors did in Dorothy Lamour's day. Perhaps he was distracted by the shadows still fitfully visible in this film...
...really manly man of Rick's size would pick me up and chuck me over the balcony down to smash. But Rick was a paper man. There was no strength in him. I was safe, had been deceived. He wasn't strong or hot or warm. He wasn't a murderer. He was a suicide if anything but I doubted even that. Suicide is a sickness in health and Rick and wholly sane....I held him with the power of the human eve over a beast...
...Smash...