Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second great pleasure of the film is purely visual. When the ungainly spike of the Tower first appears in the midst of San Francisco's skyline, it is so obviously a cut-and-paste job that you wince. The special effects are on the Star Trek level--somewhat better than Rodan but much, much worse than 2001. But once night falls and the fire begins, and you get used to it, the destruction acquires a weird beauty of its own. The flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building...
Some mainland projects are based on the West's Spanish heritage. Sponsored by Arizona and California, some 240 men, women and children will leave Horcasitas, Mexico, on Sept. 25 for a nine-month trek by horse and wagon to re-enact the 1775-76 expedition that settled the San Francisco Bay area and established Mission Dolores and the Presidio. Along the way, the wagons will stop for Bicentennial celebrations in several Southwestern cities. San Jose is recreating a 19th century ambience in six square blocks and twelve buildings, including a firehouse, hardware store and bank. Los Angeles has lined...
...life, ends before the goal is reached. Herzl died in 1904, burned out by the age of 44. It was literally in the middle of the journey. He had aroused the Jews of Eastern Europe-including a ten-year-old named David Ben-Gurion. Slowly they began the trek to Ottoman-controlled Palestine. The new Exodus was under way. Still, Britain's Balfour Declaration, promising land to the Jews, was 14 years away; Israel would not be founded for another 44 years...
...voyage. The literature of Britain, for example, is lush with attempts by writers to flee the island's wave-beaten shores on the wings of poesy. Joseph Conrad's Jim leaves Victorian propriety behind him to become a brutal lord among primitive East Indies tribesmen. D.H. Lawrence's characters trek to all parts of the globe in search of a primeval energy lacking in Edwardian drawing rooms. Malcolm Lowry's consul seeks to escape from the gentility of Georgian society by drinking himself into a stupor under the volcanoes of Mexico...
Although the writers have chosen to lean on an overdose of in-jokes and law school bards that may make a daytime trek to the Law School a prerequisite for many of the laughs, director Victor Budnik pulls things together coherently enough. If he could only have scrapped a few leads, at little expense to the already loosely conducted plot, then maybe he would have been able to work in the type of situation comedy that need not rely on HLS chumminess to get the laughs. But as it is now, you have to pan through a river of plot...