Word: smooths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More banks failed during 1975 than in any year since World War II-and hardly anyone noticed. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. paid out $310 million to depositors in the 13 small U.S. banks that closed their doors, and that pretty much was that. The smooth performance illustrated a fact of paramount importance in any discussion of banking troubles: since the FDIC was created in 1934, the calamitous run on a bank has become a dim memory, and the safety of money deposited in banks has been just short of absolute...
...acceptable places, if he has any real loyalties. He hurts few people, and those he does are not left badly off. This is particularly true since we meet almost no one else in the film who could possibly be an alternate focus of sympathy. But even in this relatively smooth first half the signs of impending disaster for this film are apparent...
...made so gross or so unnecessary a casting error. There are plenty of handsome actors around, and almost any of them could have been less of a gobbler in this part. While everyone else is speaking in Irish brogue or the King's English, O'Neal sounds like a smooth-voiced Jack Nicholson out of Doonesbury. "How could you do this to me, Nora?" he asks in a deadpan American voice that could have come straight out of Gidget Goes Loco. O'Neal's Barry has no charm and is the film's decisive failure; you can forgive a rogue...
Officiating caused as many problems for the Crimson as B.C. The referees let the game get out of hand, missing many calls both ways. As a result Harvard's customary smooth skating style became totally disoriented, and B.C. felt right at home with the rough tone which they had set for the game...
Ironically, Avildsen has intentionally chosen this bigger-than-life storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...