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...stirred up a lot more interest: the candidates present no jarring political differences. Both struggle to reign supreme at the middle-of-the-road. Just like everybody nowadays, they favor increased military expenditures and reduced federal taxation. They differ, in a significant way, only over abortion. In a curious twist, Spector, the Republican, opposes a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, while-Flaherty, an Irish-Catholic, sympathizes with the pro-life position...
...blows a bubble with his gum it pops with an immediate cut to the thunderous roar of a war scene on the movie set. Rush has the rare ability to lift the viewer bodily from his seat with a shift of perspective, to paralyse the metabolism with a twist of the zoom lens...
Maybe the most dispiriting twist of the Carter presidency, though, has been the political self-interest with which he has approached both his stewardship of the nation and this presidential campaign. Unwilling to debate Ted Kennedy, Carter stayed in the White House citing his concern for the hostages. When it appeared his strategy was unraveling, he called the continuing Iran debacle "manageable" and packed his bags for a little politicking. This fall, realizing that his own shortcomings would be apparent to liberal viewers, the president boycotted a debate with John Anderson. Shamelessly cynical, Carter has run the longest, most intense...
...them, showed us that being trained to kill people in a brutally authoritarian institution could be fun, in fact, downright hilarious. Just when it seemed that Vietnam had bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly feminist service comedy. Imagine a cross between Gomer Pyle, USMC and An Unmarried Woman. The result is Private Benjamin, a relentlessly stupid, dismal little movie...
Allen treats these women poorly, a surprising twist after his affairs with Diane Keaton in Annie Hall and Manhattan. Three women sub for Keaton in Stardust Memories, and while each is superb, their roles are strangely limiting. Charlotte Rampling, a beautiful cross between Lauren Hutton and Lauren Bacall, plays Keaton opposite Allen's Allen. In one tortuous montage of second long takes, her teary face flashes over and over, unable to finish a sentence, to complete a thought, to cry. She is the troubled object of Allen's obsessions, and though we learn her past, and even her future...