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...announces, "I ain't goin' in there with that ugly old white woman." A policeman asks him about a gang of thieves. "Were they colored?" the cop inquires. "Yeah," Sanford answers, adding-after the appropriate pause -"white...
said that he accepts 3he Bible as the word of God, but that he takes as factual only what the Bible intends to present as factual, a qualification that Preus labels a "hermeneutical cop-out." The board voted not to rehire Ehlen. But after the faculty and alumni protested, the board backed down and gave Ehlen another contract, without tenure...
There's still more. Robert Duvall, rivalling Robert Ryan as America's most underrated actor, is the Corleone's German-Irish lawyer: Sterling Hayden, brute incarnate, a guinea-baiting crooked mick cop; and a supporting cast of lesser-knowns and has-beens with the right number of stitches in their faces and cricks in their walks...
...values of traditional heroes are in question, but his actual motives are mundane, and he's apt to be a bit dumb. In addition to story, Kubrick caught the hypocritical impersonality of 50's surfaces--in an airport where Hayden is finally caught, or a bar where a cop gets a share of the take...
...veterans are dropouts from society-drug-using "heads" or alcoholic "berries." But a number of them have managed to capitalize on their wartime experience. One typical ex-Marine whose service record helped him land a job in the police department explained that his reason for becoming a cop was "to get those hippies and niggers." Another who learned "staging"-which involves occupying enemy buildings-has put his skills to use as a burglar...