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...halfhearted attempt, in MAGNUM FORCE, to clean up Dirty Harry, that law-and-order fascist manqué whom you hated to hate a couple of seasons back. Once again, as in the 1971 film named for him, Detective Harry Callahan (Eastwood) is confronted by a series of apparently motiveless, definitely psychopathic murders. This time, it turns out, they are not the work of an isolated madman but of a self-appointed death squad, members of Harry's own San Francisco police department who have grown impatient with the delays and niceties of the rule of law. This gives Harry...
...Eden. 1955 with Raymond Massey, J. Harris Dean, Burl Ives, directed by Elia Kazan. James Dean's best performance in which his capacity for portraying a rebel youth is fully used, unlike the more acclaimed Rebel Without a Cause, which was a spinoff of Brando's prototypical 50's motiveless wandervogel in The Wild One. Set on John Steinbeck's 30's Northern California farmland, Kazan strips the Nobel Prize winner's story of all its forced Biblical parallels. And in focussing the story upon the character played by Dean he creates the sort of lean, energetic, powerfully dramatic work...
...Eden. 1955 with Raymond Massey, J. Harris Dean, Burl Ives, directed by Elia Kazan. James Dean's best performance in which his capacity for portraying a rebel youth is fully used, unlike the more acclaimed Rebel without a Cause, which was a spinoff of Brando's prototypical 50's motiveless wandervogel in The Wild One. Set on John Steinbeck's 30's Northern California farmland, Kazan strips the Nobel Prize winner's story of all its forced Biblical parallels. And in focussing the story upon the character played by Dean he creates the sort of lean, energetic, powerfully dramatic work...
...guilt as an Ibiza layabout a trifle more fascinating than the case warrants, and any reader who has put in time loafing in the European sun may suspect that he understands the inspiration for The Spanish Soldier. Buckholz himself lives on Ibiza, and his novel about Matthew's motiveless quest simply reflects an expatriate's guilty belief that he should face reality-which is to say, go back to the U.S. and get mugged in the subway...
...Author Gary Wills (Nixon Agonistes) wrote brilliantly on the metaphysics of American politics. A man of both erudition and back-room savvy, Wills favored McGovern, but in New York magazine he skewered the Democratic candidate's "motiveless benignity": "He does what he does because it is right, and it is right because he does it." Writing in the New York Times Magazine on the Sunday before Election Day, Wills scoffed at liberal fears that Nixon's re-election would herald the end of freedom: "Learning to live with Nixon is just the prosaic, unappealing task of getting along with ourselves...