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...longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...
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This isn't a movie, it's a recipe. The people who put The Sting together followed the instructions on the Butch Cassidy package: one Paul Newman, one Robert Redford, a dash of caper. Stir in the same director, if available...
...Sting was not made to be taken seriously, but many people may find it difficult even to enjoy the movie casually. It lacks the elements that could have given it true drive: a sense of an urban underworld, or of the Depression that sucked so many people into it; an understanding of the con man's pathology that goes beyond surface style and patter; a story that depends not on plot twists but on characters. The movie ends up with a lot of expensive sets and a screenful of blue eyes...
...also finds space for an elderly immigrant's recollection of Ellis Island: "Din, confusion, bewilderment, madness!" There is a memorable sting to his words about the Supreme Court. The Justices, he writes, "have proclaimed the right to keep blacks and whites apart on trains and then, decades later, proclaimed the right of blacks to sit with whites on trains ... They had interpreted the letter of the Constitution to say ... that the individual's rights are imperiled when an oil company gobbles up its competitors...