Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking confidently of birth control without pills or intrauterine devices as they experiment with a space-perfected system for monitoring bodily temperature. Refined by aerospace engineers, lasers are finding more and more uses in surgery. Indeed, a whole new breed of medical man has emerged-the biomedical engineer, whose bag contains neither pills nor stethoscope, but electronic black boxes. With his help, aerospace contractors are turning out a remarkable array of prosthetic devices and diagnostic equipment...
...lead. It grows enough coffee each year to sup ply two-thirds of the world's needs, has enough surplus in storage to supply every coffee drinker for more than a year. Though present quotas allow it to sell only about 60% of its average 30-million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming to an end. With $70 million in government backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that...
Reality intrudes into their make-believe celluloid world when they seek to exchange their hostage for a bag full of francs. A policeman tries to arrest them for double parking and with one flic, the flick, for them, is over. The boys lose their cool, shoot the cop, and spray the surrounding crowd with a submachine gun; three innocent bystanders die. The thieves flee, and like kids miming a game of cops and robbers they shoot it out on the rocks in an abandoned quarry. But playtime is over; the bullets are for real...
...elusive, bittersweet quality that gives bite to the blues, soulin' is a Rawls specialty. His style is all his own. Drawing from a mixed bag of songs, he improvises effortlessly within a three-octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame...
...should be noted that Forman is not yet (in this, his second film) entirely adequate technically. He did not graduate from any of those incetuous Middle European national film academies, so unlike every other Slav we know he has neither a spine-warping bag of tricks nor an official certificate of artistry. He got into cinema as a writer, and the continuities he establishes are clearly more dramatic than graphic-which should make his art more accessible than most to the casual moviegoer...