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...Their zig-zag escapades from the Midwest to the Southwest make "Bonnie and Clyde" an adventure flick in the style of a pioneer Western. As Clyde and Bonnie travel, they move farther and farther from civilization and its attendant rules. In their travels they pick up C.W. Post (Michael J. Pollard), a gas station attendant, Clyde's brother-in-law, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), a nag and complainer who puts a damper on the group's free-wheeling fun. She is a constant reminder of the boredom and drudgery of the world that Bonnie...
Altman's characters zig-zag around L.A., crossing paths in a series of coincidences so contrived they are reminiscent of a Thomas Hardy novel, and accumulating moving experiences at a mind-numbing rate. They are united by common experience in the opening and closing sequences of the film: in the former case by the medfly scare, in the latter by an earthquake. (This portrayal of L.A. as a shimmering and perilous mirage is so hackneyed and off-base as to induce nausea...
Barrett started his walk 11 days ago along the New York border in Williamstown, according to campaign spokesperson Kenneth A. Bamberger '90. His zig zag tour has proceeded through North Adams south to Pittsfield, and from there north up the Connecticut River Valley. He is scheduled to arrive in Amherst today...
...storm blew through Cambridge the day before the College was scheduled to register. "My father and I zig-zagged through New York and Massachusetts [the day after the hurricane] to get to registration," Munson says...
...AXIOM OF POLITICS THAT running for the White House involves a zig and then a zag: during the primaries, candidates of both parties normally concentrate on wooing the liberal or conservative wings of their parties; once nominated, they pivot toward the broad middle of the American electorate, where the White House is lost...