Word: viscera
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters to spend some time and much energy chasing another set of characters around, the truth (or falsity) of these pictures must be looked for in the staging and cutting of the subsequent shoot-outs and chases. In judging those, the brain gratefully surrenders to the viscera. In a sense, these films, so dependent for their success on mastery of movie technique, represent one of cinema's purest forms. And all action movies may aspire to be judged not on the basis of how well they imitate life, but on how well they imitate the genre's ideal form...
Bulletins of this kind have become disturbingly common in recent months, despite the Administration's affection for law-and-order rhetoric. Ronald Reagan speaks from his Middle American viscera when he says that lawlessness demands a "spiritual solution" and that retribution "should be swift and sure...