Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manhood, patriotism, and love. Activist and associate producer Bruce Gilbert, who conceived the idea for the movie along with Fonda, claims the original black and white differences between the hawkish marine and the anti-war vet were toned down. The stereotypes, however, are still very heavily drawn: the ultra-macho Dern, whose buddies' idea of a perfect party for him is "a side of beef and a case of Jack Daniels," is totally insensitive in bed, gung-ho about the war, and outraged when his wife decides to go to work (as a volunteer in the V.A. hospital) after...
...earlier occasions. Perhaps Sellon intends to play Tindle as a rather shallow gigolo, but he is not right for that interpretation--besides, Shaffer has taken great pains to show us a much more complex, sympathetic character, a young man understandably baffled by his host's odd behavior. Sellon's ultra-smooth Milo forgets to be incredulous. He improves in his later scenes, when the ordeals he undergoes, and his eventual mastery of the situation; give him a harried, tousled, wildeyed look, and at last his archness seems appropriate--but even here a good director should have toned him down...
...Omen is a soulless, gutless endeavor, an ultra-gory, workmanlike tale about the arrival of the anti-Christ, one Damien. (Every movie about the devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in a scene lingered over by the cameraman as though he were some kind of vampire. One moment of imagination: the prowl of a vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted...
...Harvard, a diminishing minority of the wealthy will have to bear the cost of the diversity which is based on financial aid, and they may quickly grow tired of that burden. Ultimately it seems that if Harvard cannot find a way of stabilizing tuition, it may revert to the ultra-elitism which characterized it 50 years ago. Although it seems inevitable, the pattern of annual increases must not be accepted with resignation...
...that time, ultra-intelligent machines will be working in partnership with our best minds on all the serious problems of the day, in an unbeatable combination of brute reasoning power and human intuition. What happens after that? Dartmouth President John Kemeny, a pioneer in computer usage, sees the ultimate relation between man and computer as a symbiotic union of two living species, each completely dependent on the other for survival. The computer-a new form of life dedicated to pure thought-will be taken care of by its human partners, who will minister to its bodily needs with electricity...