Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this ridiculous flick, filmed on the cheap by Film Consortium of Canada Inc., does the job well. Hollis McLaren is winsomely demented. When Actor Russell puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead in side. "You are not dead!" says Robin, as the music rises...
Systems from Boston to Los Angeles protect themselves with tie-ins to multistate power pools and with automatic "load shedding" controls that temporarily cut off some customers when overloads threaten. Yet New York too relied on those devices, and they were not enough...
...notes that the payola has inflated from $25 before passage in 1974 of the Privacy Act, designed to shield citizens from at least some invasions of privacy by the Government. Since then, Beltrante gripes, some of his phone company sources have dried up, although the law does not directly threaten them...
...following story). But Moscow's deepest concern is probably the possible reverberations that Eurocommunism, if allowed to develop unchecked, might have among the captive regimes of Eastern Europe. If seductive ideas about an independent Communism were allowed to take root there, they would not only threaten Moscow's determination to maintain itself as the Rome of international Communism. They would also threaten the East-West balance of power, the informal system of spheres of influence in Europe that the Soviets have sought to maintain and legitimize since World...
...trouble is that the writers could not talk anybody into letting them blow up another roller coaster, or even seriously threaten one, for the climax. So the movie just sort of peters out as everybody chases about at Los Angeles' Magic Mountain park. Couldn't hero and villain at least have wrestled around up there atop the scary Magic Mountain coaster? Why did they bring Segal's daughter near the ride if they were not going to put her on it and thus into thrilling jeopardy...