Word: badder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot, and Bing Crosby pops in from time to time as one Allen A. Dale, who reforms a roomful of rowdy orphans with a song called Don't Be a Do-Badder. The rest of the film runs to self-parody, augmented by boyish enthusiasm for booze, broads, violence and bad grammar. Though 7 Hoods offers negligible entertainment value, it does provide innocuous occupational therapy for the western world's best-paid gang of rebels without a cause...
MEWS is often thought to be bad news-and the badder the bigger. Certainly, any well-balanced diet of weekly news will have much to tell of diseases, controversies, unrest, agonies public and private. This week's cover story, for example, examines the long railroad featherbedding fight as it reached beyond its last mile. But much of the other big news these days deserves to be judged by some other standard than its gloom content. Will there be a nuclear test ban? How will the Sino-Soviet split affect the U.S.? These questions-like those about civil rights...