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...effectively brutal scene of a mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon on evil, which, we are told, is pervasive and unavoidable. Rather like Charles Branson-Michael Winner movies, apparently...
Today's more sober appraisal of youth is based partly on a striking demographic fact: America is growing older. There are proportionately fewer young people than in the 1960s. In that decade, as a result of the post-World War II baby boom, the age group of 14 to 24 expanded by an unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates...
...thousand Harvard students sober or energetic enough to crawl out of bed at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning for the long trek over to the Business School field, standing around three deep in the rain or the cold was a small price to pay to see Harvard's superbly-turned soccer machine roll over its opponents week after week...
American Graffiti is not a soft soap film like its nostalgia predecessors. The end of the film, which is a mite too fanciful (with the college bound boy flying away on "Magic Carpet Airways"), is sober if not sobering. Everybody does not get his girl. But everyone does make his decision. One way or another, for one reason or another, the boys have taken their cards and Lucas will force each one to play them...
Hefner reacted much more cautiously. The night after the decision was handed down, he called a sober-minded meeting of his top editors to discuss its possible consequences. Though Hefner insists that "nothing we have published would even remotely fall under the ban of the Supreme Court's decision," he also adds-somewhat inscrutably-that "we're going to have to find some satisfactory middle ground...