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...reputation by writing well about a great variety of things-basketball players and orange growers; men who designed strange, useless aircraft; anachronistic citizens of the Hebrides or the Pine Barrens. His latest collection, Giving GoodWeight, which will be released in paperback next week, continues in the same expansive vein. Five stories this time-farmers who sell their produce in Manhattan, an engineer who decides the best site for a nuclear power plant is anchored off the Jersey Shore, a New York Times reporter given to playing pinball, a group of wealthy men making a canoe trip, a chef who cooks...
...could hope to find in these cynical days. This realism also lends credibility to the fantastic tale unfolding aboard the mighty ship. In fact, at a time when movies are increasingly preoccupied with the inexplicable and supernatural, The Final Countdown is one of the few films in this juvenile vein that are adult, intelligent and entertaining. -By Richard Schickel
Beneath the glamorous settings and soap-opera situations -and inextricable from them-is a solid, suggestive foundation of conflicting themes and characters. David Jacobs, 40, who created the show and wrote many of its early episodes, struck a rich vein of dramatic possibilities with one basic opposition: the Old West vs. the New West. Dallas expresses this opposition in countless configurations: cattle and oil, country and city, the land and the machine, tradition and innovation, family and business, the Ewing ranch in rural Braddock and the Ewing Oil office building in downtown Dallas...
There are more awkward juxtapositions. Camelot is sometimes historical pageant, sometimes operetta. The language veers from the chivalric mode to slangy vernacular. Things begin in a comedic vein with the babbling buffoonery of Merlyn (James Valentine) and the blimpish insularity of King Pellinore (Paxton Whitehead), and then turn somber with the threatened burning of Guenevere at the stake...
...more liberal vein, the court ruled that a suspect's right to counsel was violated when the FBI used a prison mate as an informer (U.S. vs. Henry), and the Fourth Amendment was found to bar police from entering a man's home to arrest him for a felony unless they have an arrest warrant (Payton vs. New York...