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...already leaving scars on the lives of many residents. For-sale signs have been posted in front of houses all over town. As a consequence, real estate prices are declining. Even so, there consequence, real estate prices are declining. Even so, there are no buyers, which contributes to a vicious economic cycle. Because the unemployed cannot sell their houses, most of them must limit their job hunting to a radius of 30 or 40 miles from Fond...
Some of these complaints, and a few others--bridling at the film's bluntly exploitational treatment of women, the disregard for character development, the extreme vicious streak--can be deflected by the claim that DePalma's theme, after all, is sexual fantasy. The whole film, it can be said, is intended as a pleasantly nasty sexual fantasy, with all its extravagance and questionable taste registering as expressions of DePalma's basic idea that sex is a dark dirty joke. This is true so far as it goes, and there's a spark of additional interest in light of the film...
...statement, which was entitled "Our Way Is Not Theirs," attacked "extremists in the [Israeli] public and within the government guided by secular and religious chauvinism [who] distort Zionism and threaten its realization. They advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence which nurture each other." It also appeared to be critical of Begin's insistence on establishing Israeli settlements in the Arab West Bank, a policy that some American Jews believe is a serious obstacle to peace in the Middle East...
...Seven & Seven, not a typewriter. But the paunchy columnist who wrote sad humor like no one else ever will could not bring himself to admit that even New York had its share of unredeemable scum, that bum was a nice word for derelict, that plenty of criminals were vicious, not loveable. And, in his whole menagerie, there was one character he never drew--the young punk who laughed at things that weren't funny, the punk who was tough because he liked it that way, needed it that...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight characters only make cameo appearances in Stomping Ground. They are the scenery Hamill uses to show off Tommy Ryan, a royal lowlife who took his business degree and put it to vicious use. Ryan uses his women--"A man needs sex, has to have his pipes cleaned"--and he uses his friends--saved from a service revolver-death by a giant sidekick, Ryan orders him and his fiancee killed the next day for fear they'll "sing." He is a nasty bastard--when his lover laughs at him, he leaves in a rage...