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...Exorcist, The French Connection) that are expertly designed and executed to appeal to us at a low, visceral level. Or-just possibly-Friedkin, despite the noisy response he made to critical hooting over The Exorcist, is answering it with a distinctly muted picture, which takes its material just a tad more seriously than it really warrants. Whatever. The fact is that Sorcerer exists in a kind of limbo, offering neither the silly fun of a movie wallowing happily in its own trashiness nor the more profound pleasures of genuine...
...broad comedy and simple emotions. Generally they just place their hero in one or more fast-moving vehicles while motivating one or more square characters to give chase to him. Between crashes, Reynolds is given a series of wisecracks that establish his basic screen character-shrewd, laid-back, a tad reckless and a devil with women...
...distance running may suffer from the same lack of depth, but here again McCurdy has a solid core of former cross-country runners to build around. The big guns here should be freshmen Tad McNulty and Reed Eichner, who have been running strong in practices all along...
White House watchers also think they can glimpse a tad of arrogance showing through the good ole boy pose. Jordan is specifically charged with not answering enough of his telephone calls. He pleads in his defense that he gets from 200 to 300 of them a day. But he could hardly spend more time at work. He usually eats lunch at his desk, constantly fighting his weight (185 Ibs.) with a low-cal chopped sirloin, cottage cheese and salad-then snitches sweets from his secretary's candy jar. His rollicking good humor leavens the fatiguing days. He responds...
There is one memory left to start the story forward and work down to Jimmy, who seems a tad still in that ongoing stream. Mr. Alton Carter, age 88, is Jimmy's dead father's elder brother. A short, gentle-voiced man, he haunts his son Hugh's antiques store on Main Street, meeting all with old-fashioned manners and a memory that runs back, clear and voluminous, to the early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils...