Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience's comic reaction is a measure of both the movie's appeal and its failure as a moral statement. Duddy Kravitz is a thoroughly lovable character. Richard Dreyfuss is superb in his portrayal of the poor mischievous Jewish boy who sets out to make his mark after his hunched-over bearded grandfather tells him, "A man without land is a nobody." Motherless since the age of six, left to fend for himself by his taxi-cab driving father, ignored by his rich uncle, and taunted by his peers, Duddy determines to win the respect of his grandfather...
...bright spot of the afternoon, however, was the superb race turned in by senior Jim Keefe. The Crimson captain locked horns with Northeastern's top man Mike Buckley until the last mile, when Keefe pulled away to take first place with a time...
...fantasies within bounds. Trying to borrow money to keep a perpetual-student sister in school, Pataki inquires whether Marshall would like to see the girl "out in the streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater a few seasons back, is a quirky blend of shy preoccupation and blurting enthusiasm, quick starts and sudden hesitations. If his première show lacked Rhoda's slickness and deteriorated into formula writing on occasion, it nevertheless introduced a character capable of both surprise and maybe even growth...
Although the Red Sox threatened to peck away at the Birds' lead to win, Cuellar was content with men on base and received superb defensive support with two stellar plays by shortstop Mark Belanger. Belanger saved one run with a stunning aerial stab of a Terry Hughes smash, to end the sixth inning and leave Burleson on second base...
...Nasty and Venomous." Moses, in an official statement, has already described The Power Broker as "nasty, venomous and vindictive" and suggested that readers "look at the record." What the author has done, however, is look behind the record. And what he offers, beyond a superb portrait of a man, is a study of municipal power that will change the way any reader of the book hereafter peruses his newspaper...