Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sore throats or lessen their severity." In the course of its review, which began in 1972, the FTC found that Listerine was no more effective in combatting colds than warm water. Doubtless Warner-Lambert will bury the admission as inconspicuously as possible in ads declaring that Listerine does cure bad breath-another old claim...
...attack on Commission Chairman William T. Bagley, Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton summed up Washington opinion this way: "The agency is one of the most screwed up in the whole Federal Government. You're working your way up the hit parade for ineptitude and inefficiency." The CFTC had the bad luck to be the first group subjected to a "sunset" law that requires new federal agencies to justify periodically their continued existence. There is some talk in Congress of letting the commission die when its charter expires Sept. 30 and giving some of its policing functions to the Securities...
...blame for the failure must be equally divided between a feebly developed script and stupefying direction. The basic story is a Bad News Bears knockoff. A down-on-his-luck Hollywood talent agent (Allen Garfield) becomes fascinated by skateboarding kids as he commutes to and from the unemployment office. He decides to organize a team to put on exhibitions and enter the competitions that are a growing part of this phenomenon. Pressed by a gambler to pay off a debt, he unpleasantly pushes the kids, loses his star on the eve of the big down hill race but sees...
...also left hanging vaguely in air. The team's adventures on the road are neither funny nor harrowing. Even the racing scenes are suspenselessly developed to resemble all the other skateboarding sequences; no where is there any pace, style or excitement. One can only hope that this bad, visibly cheap film will not entirely preempt further explorations of a curious little world. There is still a good movie in it somewhere...
...flag of adversary relationship has flown over much valuable investigative reporting, but it also gives sanction to the increasingly truculent, bearbaiting questioning of officials and press spokesmen that has become one of Washington's major blood sports. A cynical posture in such reporting assumes all Government to be bad, all privacy to equal concealment and all explanations to amount to lies. The adversary relationship, most evident in rat-pack journalism, gives a false nobility to the second-rate and the lazy...