Word: whimpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, Gerald Ford was pressing his Cambodia request hardest, personally telephoning key Republican members of Congress. Only a few years ago, any such relatively trifling request for military funds in Indochina would have speeded through Congress with barely a whimper of protest. Now, while prospects for approval of some limited aid varied day by day, they appeared forlorn by week's end. The House, in particular, seemed adamantly opposed...
...Even a Whimper...
...persuade her that once she tries it she'll like it--is unconvincing. Emmanuelle, in her unfailingly dumb, wondering way, never leaves any doubt that in the end she'll give in, she'll assimilate in the most predictable way possible, not with a bang but with a whimper. Sylvia Kristel as Emmanuelle is tall and leggy but her only notion of acting seems to be to widen her eyes. As in the most hard-core pornography, a threadbare plot exists only to bring on more skin and to make the idea of watching people make love for two hours...
...film is not a study of the origins of the underworld. It doesn't tell us much about the underworld's organization, either, or about the bases of its power in a corrupt system, in a country whose basic premises of economic exploitation pass naturally, without a whimper, from the barely legal to the outright illegal. The Godfather II is like dynastic history--full of human interest, good gossip, and referring in passing to more important, underlying historical events. Visually it's a treat, and the understated performances of Pacino and Lee Strasberg are fine...
...Bucks hope to counter Havlicek's stellar performance with retiring Oscar Robertson who would like to go out of the pros not with a whimper but a bang...