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What is difficult to understand is the film's utter lack of moral insight. One suspects that Stallone kept hoping to turn his labor leader into another Rocky, for, although his hero keeps trafficking with gangsters and tolerates much graft among his fellow unionists, he never gets upset about it because he 1) never takes anything for himself, and 2) insists that wretched means justify his ends: a strong union that enables its members finally to enjoy the pleasures of owning their very own campers, motorboats and other ecologically unsound objects. An actor, or writer, of parts might have...
...DeVore here, and only DeVore. And Irven DeVore did his graduate work in social anthropology at what was (and maybe still is) the leading intellectual center in the United States: University of Chicago. DeVore has studied in depth the disciplines of psychology and social and cultural anthropology and could utter in five minutes more knowledge on subjects in these "human" fields than Mr. Emmerich might be able to come up with in five hours...
...more accessible care for his "illnesses." But Angelique loves Cleante and refuses her father's command to marry the odious son of M. Diafoirus, Thomas (Randy Clark and Samuel Krisch). Thomas and his father are replete with useless "university" knowledge which they spout without even understanding. They are utter quacks, ordering Argan to put grains of salt on his eggs in even numbers, and take pills in odd numbered quantities...
...over the plush Las Vegas boxing emporium where Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks had struggled through 15 lashing rounds to claim sport's most special crown. "Judge Art Lurie: 143-142, Ali. Judge Lou Tabat: 145-140, Spinks. Judge Harold Buck: 144-141." A pause, a breath in that utter stillness and then: "The new Heavyweight Champion of the World, Leon Spinks...
...McDonald--he of the once-sore elbow--saw ample action on the Harvard power play, and on a regular line shift, centering Randy Millen and Phil Evans. McDonald appears healthy, strong and has not lost his ability to stickhandle with utter finesse and skill...