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Stanford Against Conscription, a student group opposing draft registration, sent the notices as a publicity stunt, but many students said they thought the letters--which came in official envelopes and used three typefaces on letterhead stationery--were real...
THIS PLOT PROVIDES the framework for the usual action--Popeye slugging his way through run-ins with Bluto and other assorted ruffians. The fight scenes underscore the limitations of the premise. Clever camera and stunt work not-withstanding, human beings simply cannot contort themselves the way cartoon figures can. Robin Williams can only cock his wrist a couple of times for the famous twister punch. As a result, the slapstick gains in immediacy but loses the necessary hyperbole...
...unfairly used as a means to put McCartney in his place, although Lennon had taken pains lately to redefine details of his collaboration with Paul, and to make sure credit was distributed accurately. The melodic range of the music ran from marching band to rhythm and blues, from tonal stunt flying to atonal acrobatics, once in a while all in the same song. The Beatles sang ballads that could almost be Elizabethan, rockers that still sound as if they come from the distant future, and it was hard to peg all that invention to any single source. Lennon joked about...
Dependent on foreign suppliers for 85% of its petroleum needs, Brazil fears that an unchecked appetite for oil could stunt the country's growth and worsen its already horrendous 109% inflation rate. Five years ago, the Brazilian government began heavily subsidizing construction of new sugar distilleries to encourage the switch from crude to cane. As production of alcohol increased, new service-station pumps popped up around the country. At first, most of them dispensed gasohol, which was mixed at a ratio of 80% gasoline to 20% alcohol and could be used by regular car engines. But in the past...
...tangential pretensions and clutter, The Stunt Man never forgets the cheap pleasures of the funhouse, and in this fundamental modesty it becomes something unique. The simple high spirits of the ferris wheel save The Stunt Man from a pathetic failure. This film falls into the great American tradition of roguish, exploitative entertainment. This is a movie of sequins and comic strip naivete, of the three-ring circus. And Rush is a dazzling ringmaster...