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...walkin', friggin' combat zone," Harry's boss tells him. "Your ideas don't fit any more." Alas, they do. Dirty Harry is the raging vigilante voice inside every put-upon urbanite. In the past, Eastwood has carried this contradiction within his own antihero character; now Harry has found a comely avatar. Joseph C. Stinson's script says it is O.K. to kill half a dozen people if you have soft blond hair and a righteous grudge. Agree who will. The rest of the audience will enjoy Director Eastwood's knowing cinematic jolts, the outsize...
...gonna let nobody turn me 'round turn me 'round, turn me 'round, Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round I'm gonna keep on walkin', keep on a-talkin' Marching up to freedom land...
Teasdale is sticking to the down-home strategy he first developed in 1972, when he called himself " Walkin' Joe" and hiked across the state in an unsuccessful primary bid for Governor. Four years later, he won. He now portrays himself as a defender of the "common man." He boasts, for instance, that at his urging the state legislature voted $2.5 million to help poor people pay their air-conditioning bills during last July's heat wave. Teasdale, a former state prosecutor who graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., acidly contrasts his country-boy background with that...
...antenna, plus a chance to compete for the grand prize of a Datsun 280Z, a $5,000 personal appearance contract and an all-expenses-paid vacation for two in London. Sample: "Amigo, knock the slack out, turn on your ears to the 40-channel maximum, legal power ... Stop walkin' the dog, gettin' bad scenes, signal dropout and bleedovers. Why be a tweakie...
...Walkin' down new streets the music is loud...