Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luckily, Anthony Hopkins is a fascinating actor to watch, even when saddled with such bad material. Although the script denies him the chance to develop Corky's madness gradually, Hopkins manages to vary the histrionics and constantly radiates an appealing boyishness, even after Corky has just slit someone's jugular. Hopkins' performance nearly salvages the movie, even though he is strongly hampered by the efforts of a bad dialect coach, who must think that Catskills residents talk like third-rate Brando imitators. Actually, Hopkins' accent is the most unpredictable aspect of Magic...
...DARKNESS bind them. J.R.R. Tolkien could not have known when he wrote that verse that one day, The Ring, his ring, would lure thousands to the Darkness of a movie house, bind them with the fetters that a $4.00 admission fee lashes to its victims and force them to watch a cinematic travesty. He could not have known that his epic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of The Rings, would one day become a sloppy animated cartoon billed as the triumph of the imagination in movies. He could not have known...or he might not ever have written the books...
...open taunts and intimidation are regular fare on Sunday-afternoon TV. Says Assistant Coach Gary Bruch: "We're out there five days a week trying to teach high school kids to be good sports, working on the right ways to tackle and block. Then they go home and watch television, and what do they see? Pro players dancing in the end zone and spiking the ball to humiliate opponents, spearing, taking cheap shots...
...Democrats, despite their many victories, were not pleased with the results. On election night, Jimmy Carter's White House aides cheerfully closeted themselves in Press Secretary Jody Powell's cluttered office to watch the returns. By midnight, their mood had changed. When Democratic National Committee Chairman
...Cavileer will watch yet another Harvard-Yale game today. He will watch The Game as he always has--at the center of the clattering cockpit of typewriters and carbon machines...