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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judicial statesmanship," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "The decision will go down in history not for what it did but for what it didn't do." Added his colleague Paul Freund: "The very fact that it is somewhat fuzzy leaves room for development, and on the whole that's a good thing...
This revival has its haunting implications. In his truest and most tragic self-analysis, Camus notes, "My whole work is ironic." True because he always places fact alongside theory to dramatize the distance between humane ideals and human failure. Tragic because he also confesses, "The sole effort of my life [was] to live the life of a normal man." A generation after his death, Albert Camus's Notebooks continually show that the "normal" virtues of courage, of decency, of uncompromising accuracy are, in fact, as vulnerable as great writers - and as rare as great writing. - Stefan Kanfer
...FACT, DANNY has a hard time coping with his two images throughout the movie and the whole school year. He wants to maintain his tough-guy image for his buddies and his sweet side for Sandy. The best scene of the movie (when you might be able to believe Travolta can act) comes as Danny tries to apologize to Sandy for the idiotic way in which he has been behaving towards her. They are in the local malt shop, of course, where all the kids hang out. Sandy has temporarily left her football-player date, who has all his brains...
...Levitt has had lengthy psychiatric treatment. Family friends portray him as a disturbed young man who flunked out of one university and dropped out of another, was rejected by the draft on medical grounds, and is capable of having made up the whole kidnaping story...
...cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off [she was now recollecting the scene and picture of the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One at Love Field, as the dead President lay aft] ... I saw myself in the mirror, my whole face spattered with blood and hair. I wiped it off with Kleenex. History! I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done. If I'd just...