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...admire Hagler. He's good at what he does. But when a boxer's not extraordinary the only thing left is the visceral thrill of seeing someone get knocked down. I feel sick, I feel sick inside. I have seen too many bad fights, too many ugly people. Everyone is gone and people are screaming unnaturally in the tunnels to hear the echo. I feel sick, I feel sick. What is wrong with us? This is the essential question for our times. What is wrong with us? What is wrong with us? People are screaming in the tunnels.CrimsonNevin I. ShalitMARVIN...
...looking ahead, while the year behind him smolders in pyres. The events of any isolated year can be made to seem exceptionally grim, but one has to peer hard to find elevating moments in 1980. Only Lech Walesa's stark heroism in Poland sent anything resembling a thrill into the world. The national strike he led showed up Communism as a failure?a thing not done in the Warsaw Pact countries. Leonid Brezhnev, a different sort of strongman, had to send troops to Poland's borders, in case that country, like Czechoslovakia and Hungary before it, should prove in need...
...Light, though, is not representative of this year's crop of toys--most promise a different kind of thrill...
...kinetic charge of the battle scenes, for the lyrical action. Like Peckinpah in The Wild Bunch, Kurosawa inadvertently ended up affirming the violence he set out to condemn. Now, he has made a true anti-war film, with all the horror of battle and none of the thrill...
Cooley used sheer bulk to overpower B.U.'s John Finnegan by a score of 12-6. In a thrill-packed third period Cooley scored seven of his points with near-falls as he worked for the pin and only a strong fight by Finnegan kept B.U. alive...