Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Believe it or not, You're a Big Boy Now has some faults. It was written and directed by a 27-year-old new-comer with complete control of his film, it has a uniformly fine cast, and the Lovin' Spoonful sing the background music, but the movie is not a stunning click-your-heels-in-the-air success. It's just a fresh, fast, clever movie...
...politically retrograde but economically trying hard to progress. The story was written by David B. Tinnin and edited by Edward Jamieson. They drew on extensive on-the-scene accounts from Bonn Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, who had to wait three months for his visa but finally got it, plus background reports from the Bonn bureau's Gisela Bolte and Burton Pines...
...recall anything of the defendant's background? A. He's supposed to be an ex-con, isn't he? Q. You didn't have an opinion that this man was innocent, did you? A. You mean the-the defendant? Q. Yes. This man, Speck. A. I couldn't say. Q. But you did remember that...
...more relaxed than Verwoerd, Vorster allows himself to be photographed playing golf in baggy shorts, and even invites opposition newsmen into his chambers for regular background briefings. He slyly chides visiting foreigners for their one-dimensional view of South Africa with his startling salutation: "Welcome to the happiest police state in the world...
When Mac calls, the team listens, and the noisiest diversion dwindles into the background. For the voice belongs to James Smith McDonnell, 67, whose paternal pep talks are the hallmark of a remarkably successful modern businessman. "Our work," he is fond of saying, "is part of a great team effort. I congratulate all of you who have worked so long and hard." Invariably, he closes: "This is old Mac signing...