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Word: bandwagoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country. Everybody spends six hot months panting to see the eroticism that shall change the face of cinema. No movie could live up to such a snowball of projected fantasy. So when it finally arrives and the inevitable letdown is assured, scads of critics jump on the anti-Kael bandwagon. And after a few months of their negativism, it has become radical to like the movie. By this time like or dislike has little, if anything, to do with the subject at hand...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lost in the Whitney Funhouse | 7/27/1973 | See Source »

Alcoholism was only recently recognized by the American Medical association as a disease. It has no known cure. Once an alcoholic goes dry, he can never have another drink in his life, or he'll be back on the bandwagon again. So it is understandable that Alcoholics Anonymous has chosen God to help its incurables against this mysterious disease. Berryman, baptized Catholic, became a non-believer at age 12 when his rather committed suicide. But he returned to the flock recently. In an interview shortly before his death, he said...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Haunting Dreams and Delusions | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

...wave has passed. As a result, Brian De Palma's film can hide its imitation of both Psycho and the exploiters of Psycho behind the more artistically acceptable term homage. De Palma thinks of his film in terms of homage, so Sisters is far more discouraging than a typical bandwagon exploiter. It deceives even the film maker -- a potentially good film maker at that. De Palma tries hard to lose his style amidst Hitchcock's. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed: his film still includes sections that are both effective and original...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Following in Hitchcock's Wake | 5/3/1973 | See Source »

...faculty member, however, had the foresight to worry that radical economics might catch fire elsewhere, and Harvard would be late in "jumping on the bandwagon...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: A Peepshow of the Economics Department | 4/10/1973 | See Source »

...wait out the United States at Paris in the expectation that American public opinion will eventually force a withdrawal of American troops without prior concessions by the Vietnamese. Such criticisms must be troubling for many of the politicians and prominent citizens who have recently jumped on the Moratorium bandwagon, since it is undeniable that the existence of a strong anti-war movement in the United States does remove whatever incentive to "negotiate" the continued American presence might hold for the Vietnamese. Any doubt on this score was removed last week when spokesmen for the North Vietnamese and the new Provisional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Editorial That Made Paris Headlines: | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

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