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...heroic police inspector from the strait-laced Sgt. Friday Readers looking for a thoughtful analysis of the tortured reasoning--or lack thereof--that could lead to six random murders will be disappointed by the Exorcist-like ranting about demons and howling dogs; others, who might have hoped for a taut study of politicking and pressures within the police department will have to do with occasional references to blood rivalries between the Irish and Italians on the force. Not exactly Pulitzer Prize-winning stuff...
...newcomers to the Arica theory and the intense sensations they undergo during their 40-day training session at a remote community nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. However, in trying to condense the various stages of the trainees' five-week-long encounter with the Arica theory into a taut, fastmoving film, Hanser leaves many questions about his subject unanswered and strips his work of many of the necessary documentary qualities. Indeed, as The Forty Day Experience moves crisply towards its seemingly premature end, the film assumes the quality of a come...
...class." A dance scholarship came to the rescue and put her in classes 12½ hours a week. Twice a day she and her classmate Meg Gordon donned rubber sweat pants and took turns stretching each other's legs, an ordeal that often left Gelsey weeping. Her muscles were taut and had to be tugged mercilessly if she was to achieve extension, the astonishing limb span demanded of great dancers...
...other levels--one structural, the other more stylistic. In one sense, Padre, Padrone develops within a movie-as-book format; based on Ledda's autobiography, the film's three-part, linear structure reminds one of a novel chronologically tracing the ascent of its protagonist. Indeed, the script's crisp, taut dialogues often resemble the verbal sparseness of some contemporary fiction...
...half hours over 1500 spectators were treated to a clash as magnificent as the structure that housed it. It was a battle free of coach-referee squabbles, devoid of nebulous injuries like hamstring pulls, refreshingly lacking of between period intermissions or T.V. timeouts. It was, rather, an event held taut with tension and spiced heavily with clutch performances...