Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neil Armstrong, ex-astronaut on jogging: "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises...
...format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most of the writers involved in this project did not even limit their subjects effectively. Only George Avakian and John S. Wilson focus their works sufficiently. Avakian details the cultural process that changed Louis Armstrong from jazz's first great improviser to a grinning but unartistic national hero, then muses briefly on the corrupting influence that so often accompanies success in the arts. And Wilson has produced, in only nine pages, the gem of the collection: a bittersweet portrait of Fats Waller, an obliging soul...
...everything was different. A physics student lay dead in the ruins of the Army Math Research Center and the brothers, Karleton and Dwight Armstrong, who had engineered the blast, were on the run from the FBI. The fresh-faced students from the surrounding Wisconsin dairy farms were gone; in their place stood experienced guerrillas trashing bank windows and planning immediate, total revolution. Nobody, not even the frat boys, cared about football anymore...
...most riveting interview was filmed from within a Wisconsin State Correctional Institution. The life of Karl Armstrong runs like a dark thread through The War at Home. Now serving a 23 year prison term, Armstrong was convicted of murder in connection with the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970. He has been called "the bitter fruit of a bitter season." But his story means far more; Karl Armstrong symbolizes the progression of the anti-war movement from leaflets to sit-ins to dynamite. Clubbed at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, he vowed never...
...KARL ARMSTRONG's words convey some of The War at Home's power and poignancy. Crisply edited and fairly short, about one hundred minutes, this new documentary outstrips any of the current films on Viet Nam: Coming Home, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter. If you only see one film this year, make it The War at Home...