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...whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think the clumsy thing is going to do them anyway? There can be no doubts on one matter, however: as the psychopath who causes...
...There should be a great, free, living stream of information, and equal access to it for all," Liebling wrote. "Our present news situation, in the United States, is breaking down to something like the system of water distribution in a casaba, where peddlers wander about with goatskins of water on small donkeys, and the inhabitants send down an oil tin and a couple of pennies when they feel thirst...
...Alex's belief that he can beat the house. The film treat us once again to the tired theme of self-destruction: all gamblers really want to lose. But even this apparently simplistic theme is not developed quite as well as it should be. Ashby simply lets his actors wander around aimlessly. He does nothing to create the mood that the film's themes demand...
Unlike his ancestor, the monsignor does not tilt at windmills, but joyrides on them, producing some superlative nonsense. In the university town of Salamanca, where Sancho once studied with the philosopher Unamuno, they wander into a Spanish house of prostitution. The unsuspecting Quixote comments, "What a large staff of charming young women for so small a hotel." Ignorant of films, for example, he picks a pious-sounding title for his first viewing. X-rated grunts of A Maiden's Prayer, however, make him wonder: "They seemed to suffer such a lot. From the sounds they made." His more worldly...
...densely populated city (despite what your roommate from New York tells you), and the 90,000 odd people who live here are as varied as the shoe styles available in the Square. On this page are a handful of the friendly faces you may bump into if you wander off campus, perhaps to Central Square, or Porter Square--on a sunny September afternoon...