Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure?! Oh, come on, hon, you're going to tear me apart!" He laughed. "You know I've been thinking about you all week...
American universities have never been totally apart from the surrounding society, the Senator said, pointing out that most of the first colleges in the country were established for limited and defined purposes, either by state legislatures or by religious groups and private individuals. "The 'free university' was never in fact a reality," he said...
...script, by Tina and Lester Pine, is not much more than a revival of the old tenement texts of the '30s. When it comes apart, it is repaired by the star -and by Miguel Alejandro and Ruben Figueroa. As Popi's boys, they are not kids but brittle, wizened old men who pay for survival in the slums with bits and pieces of their most valuable possession. For, as Popi sadly illustrates, the real crime on the streets is not riots or muggings. It is the stealing of childhood from children...
There are abiding feuds among the coastal villages as to each one's role on Dday. Courseulles-sur-Mer claims that it, not Graye-sur-Mer, is the spot where George VI and Winston Churchill stepped ashore; the two villages are barely 50 meters apart. Sainte-Mère-Eglise and Bénouville, both in drop zones for Allied paratroops, are still haggling over which was liberated first (Bénouville was). To the thousands of tourists -mostly French-who come every year, the claims and counterclaims make little difference. They come and they look, silently, respectfully, moved...
...York, where I Am Curious (Yellow) made its debut, viewers have been the most nonchalant of all. Undoubtedly distracted by worries of pollution and politics, audiences uttered no complaint when the subtitles slipped off-screen for one complete show, leaving nothing but nudes spouting Swedish. Apart from Philadelphia and Senator Dirksen, it seems, Curious has caused only one other stir: The over-the-counter stock of Grove Press, the movie's distributor, was selling at $6.25 in October 1968. Last week as Curious (Yellow) moved out to other major cities shares were over $30, and rising...