Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to comprehend why it required three writers to do this screenplay, when any reasonably bright nine-year-old could have managed it. The story is the stuff of convention: get some innocents (a mother and two children) captured by some baddies (in this case lunatic political terrorists) and sequestered where they are rescue-proof by conventional means (a deserted monastery on top of an isolated peak). The whole idea is to make an improbable -and cinematically novel-rescue gimmick a logical necessity, and in this the scriveners succeed...
...always there are some stares. Awkward is the only way to carry all this stuff. Did he sense laughter, derision in the faces of some of those he passed by? He recalled the words of captain Joe Del Ponte '78: "Initially, for me, the job made me more class conscious. Through repeated exposure to all this disdain, I realized just how ridiculous the people doing the disdaining really were." And Del Ponte's further encouragement: "I've always extolled the virtue and the pride to be found in a job well done. At least that's what I tell...
...keeps me busy on stuff that doesn't matter...
...past, the Stones have carefully chosen their opening numbers, kicking off in high gear with such exhilarating songs as "Sympathy for the Devil" on Beggar's Banquet, "Gimme Shelter" on Letit Bleed, and "Brown Sugar" on Sticky Fingers. But "Hot Stuff," the opener on this most recent album seems an unlikely choice for the prestigious spot. A not very exciting "disco-departure," its repetitive sameness is a drag. On close and multiple listenings the song's instrumental complexities provide something to be appreciated--some nice juxtaposed guitar work and several intricate percussion tracks. But at least the last two minutes...
...Taiwanese won't accept the program without the military stuff since they aren't interested in anything else," and MIT will thus be able to get out of the deal quietly, Tokar said...