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Pinnochio's (74 Winthrop St.): This place seems to change owners as often as the seasons, but the current proprietors have made a good stab at it. Their slices are a bit expensive, but pies are reasonable and not bad tasting Cafe Avventura (The Garage): The best deal in the Square for the best thin-crust pizza around. A slice for only 65 cents, and you can get a 10 percent discount with your student i.d. Pizzeria Regina (4-10 Holyoke St.): Ever since Avventura's came around, this place has become less popular, which is unfortunate since...
...film also makes a stab at humor. After following Diana to the public library. Cusack makes it to the modern art gallery. He stumbles upon some coke-snorting artists without raising an eyebrow, bares his identity as a policeman in a phone conversation, and calmly walks out while the snorters comically try to mask their activities Another funny high point occurs when two thugs plan to hold up a seedy bar. They nervously walk in follow their script to a tee, and target their guns. The only problem is that 40 guns are pointing them in the face Yes they...
Farmers naturally jacked up production to take advantage of the higher prices paid for milk and cheese surpluses. In 1973 the Government purchased only 1.9% of milk products, but by 1980 its share of the market had grown to 7%. In 1981, in a feeble stab at slowing production, Congress dropped parity as an index and froze the price at $13.10 per hundredweight. Still production rose. In 1983 the Government bought 12% of all dairy products and stored away an incredible 17 billion lbs. of butter, cheese and dried milk. The cost to taxpayers had risen from $136 million...
Equally flaccid is Radford's one stab at interpreting Orwell. After Winston's love has been ripped out of him and he has renounced Julia and himself, he sits alone and scrawls "2 plus 2 equals" in the dust of a café tabletop. The purpose of this open-ended conclusion is a mystyery only God and Bergman, but certainly not Radford, can solve. Not only does it break the emotional tone of the film and make the viewer think, but it leaves the viewer with half-developed food for thought. A far more appropriate ending would have been Orwell...
...while consistently failing to reach any dramatic climax, development or even coherence Coppola never investigates the dynamics of the gangsters world, even though "the power" changes hands several times during the film. Coppola presents the titillating moments of mob murders, like when Dixie and Vera watch the impulsive Dutchman stab his rival Flynn with a turkey carver during dinner. The blood sprays the walls, and covers the ivory tablecloth, while drops fall from the chandelier onto Lane's porcelian cheeks. Although scenes like these have dramatic bang, they never build to anything substantitive, instead disappearing into Coppola's cinematic labyrinth...