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...thought, we've got a real case here, so be nice and maybe she'll fall asleep. "Handguns shouldn't be controlled, you know, I mean what if a ghost comes into your house? If you don't have a gun by your bed, what can you do to chase the ghost away? I have my rights, and I want to protect myself from ghosts. . ." On and on she rambled, getting louder and louder until she was literally screeching, trying to drown out the noise of the tracks. I was trapped until she suddenly bolted near New Haven, looking...
...Tenneco would pipe gas into New England. George H. ("Bud") Lawrence, president of the American Gas Association, predicts that by 1985 the U.S. will be importing altogether 1.6 trillion cu. ft. of gas a year in liquid form, or one-tenth of all the gas it will burn then. Chase Manhattan Bank experts put 1985 imports at 2.2 trillion...
Richard Lester, who collaborated with Fraser on The Three Musketeers. The chore has fallen instead to Richard Fleischer, who possibly took on this benign project as penance for giving the world Mandingo. Fleischer has staged the film's many chase scenes and sword fights in his characteristically witless manner, but at least he keeps the narrative rolling noisily along. He also makes the most of his mishmash of a cast. Rex Harrison (as the Duke of Norfolk) and Oliver Reed (as Miles Hendon) are endearing good guys; George C. Scott's dry impersonation of a vagabond king...
...believers. They have for given him much before and no doubt will forgive him again. The surprising thing is that skeptics who do not want to travel somewhere east of Disney and who cringe at every gaffe and infelicity in The Plague Dogs may also be caught in the chase...
Mostly the heroes suffer familiar postcombat nightmares, get drunk and chase women whose habits and vernacular are not from the Deep South of the 1940s but from porn magazines of today. Luxor itself remains as dimensionless as its women, evoking the Memphis that was its model only in the names-Peabody and Claridge-stuck on its hotels...