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...embodies this order, and thus serves as the figurehead of the underworld community. His unmistakable style is as much a function of his well-groomed physical authority and grace, reflecting a rigid moral code. Bob serves as an example to all around him, including his protege Polo (Daniel Cauchy), who strains to emulate him at every turn. Next to some of the violent, cynical figures that populate the American underworld film landscape. Bob almost appears as a typical French bourgeois moyen in his well-being and self-righteousness...
...ultimate irony of the prison system, which I help administer, is that we are confining increasing numbers of individuals who could not function in our heterogeneous, competitive, heterosexual society that tests our ability to make decisions each day. To solve the problem, we place these offenders in a homogeneous, boring, homosexual environment in which most decisions are made for them. Then we turn them out into the world and are outraged that they fail to make...
...withering enfilade of clichés, is Ben Gazzara as an officer with no unit, no fixed duties and an inexplicable relationship to the general that permits him to witness all sorts of unedifying carnage. He has an estranged wife (rather gamely played by Jacqueline Bisset), whose function it is to become a refugee so that we can see what havoc was wreaked on the civilian population by the Communist invaders. One has not seen a heroine's hairdo stay so splendidly in place, no matter what her travail, since the 1940s. The $46 million did not go into...
...promise to raise scores. But at least such misguided faith in scores has not taken in most educators and administrators who have the ultimate responsibility for trying to salvage something from the public education system. Faced with the task of resurrecting collapsed schools and motivating uneducated teachers to function again, educators for the most part have had the sense to grit their teeth and ignore the SAT scores, trusting that if the wheels start turning again more visible achievements will follow...
Nevertheless, Versage said that if the Investment Committee did not go along with the recommendations in the third-year evaluation, then he would be forced to admit that IPAC could no longer function effectively...