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...repeated humiliation accorded Theresa by her handsome sexual swordsman (Richard Gere) is designed to serve as a counterpoint to the unrequited love showered on her by the enraptured James Morrissey (William Atherton), but the novelty of the contrast quickly wears off as the subjugation of Theresa becomes progressively uglier. She throws herself into cocaine-sniffing, prostituting herself for the thrill of the act, and blowing off Morrissey out of sheer spite. The schoolteacher identity is tossed away in the process, and while the plot occasionally returns to the classroom setting for a change of pace, the movie ultimately degenerates into...
...only in the DTs. For one scene, set in a brawling spaceport bar, the casting director went to a London firm called Uglies, Ltd. There he found actors to portray thugs assembled from all parts of the galaxy. Then Makeup Man Stuart Freeborn went to work, making the uglies uglier or turning them into nightmares of genetic engineering who resemble giant flies, cobras or things that have floated up from 20,000 leagues under...
...valley, families who left the cities and towns two or three years ago to build their own homes and grow their own food. The cow there is really named Bessie and she indeed has story-book big brown eyes. Roosters crow at dawn and pigs are even uglier and smellier than the ones you wrinkled your noses at in the children...
...dust. But wait. Journal proclaims itself part of the alternative lifestyles movement, but you wonder whether they're not just copping-out. They look to the future like Tim Leary, more strung out today on pseudo-scientific concepts of change than on chemical psyche-changers, glossing over the uglier and more immediate problems of western life by liberally prophesying that...
...land cases, of course, the Indian Renaissance is rattling one of the uglier skeletons in the open closet of American history. That much land occupied by the Indians was taken by force or fraud is an old, richly documented story. The tale, if sad, is not surprising, given the way of civilization wherever it has encroached on simpler societies. It may be, as many historians argue, that American settlers were driven by an unusual hunger for land. To pioneering Americans, in fact, the right to property was rarely distinguished from the right to liberty. It was the irresistible pursuit...