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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third period saw superb goaltending at both ends of the ice. Dartmouth's Sollows (31 saves) and Petro (20 saves) sparkled as they repulsed shots of every sort. For Petro it was just another fine performance; for Sollows, probably the game of his life...
Clapton has digested so many musical influences that he's dulled his palate. Invesitably the result is bland, a sort of baby pea-and-ham mush of originally solid substance. It's hard to distinguish Clapton's puree from Brand X any more and his appealnow lies chiefly in the hints at the original taste of the musical base than today's too-well-blended pulp. Not any reason to cry--that's too strong a reaction...
...characters he played or created in these works? Like Michael O'Hara, the sentimental drifter in Lady Shanghai, did he decide early that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches the fat, fraudulent and exposed cop, Harry Quinlan, sink beneath the river garbage in the closing shots of Touch of Evil? ("He was a real man," Dietrich mutters. "What can you say about people...
...Fake tends to nail this thesis down. For this movie does appear to represent a sort of personal statement--"This is the type of work I'd do if I didn't have to earn money," Welles says--and it merely celebrates technique. The result brings to mind the modern writer whose idea of an Artistic adventure is to describe the side of his writing desk. All along, Welles may have really needed those trusty, stock story lines to hold...
...number of political pundits have pointed out, the crucial factor underlying Byrd's liberal support was the fact that virtually every one of his colleagues owed him a political debt of one sort or another; Byrd had skillfully used his position as majority whip to curry favor among his colleagues by aiding them in putting through pet pieces of legislation. Of course the liberals came up with a number of rationalizations for their support of Byrd, the primary one being that with a Democratic president in the White House, the Majority Leader's ideology was relatively unimportant...