Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Current films seem to be putting youth back in its place. In his past roles, Steve McQueen often played the rebel -against home, hearth or system. But in Junior Banner he is a dutiful son who finally wins enough money to send his pa to his dreamland, Australia. In The Emperor of the North Pole Lee Marvin is trailed by a brash youth who wants to replace him as king of the hobos. But the crown stays squarely put on the gray head. At the end of the film Marvin boots the youth off the rails, shouting...
...until the temperature reached the mid-90s, but the men doggedly marched on, carrying a coffin heaped with flowers. Before them, behind them, some 5,000 striking vineyard workers and their supporters trudged along. Some of them carried the blackeagle flags of the United Farm Workers Union, others a banner portraying the Virgin Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers of California. While picketing at a vineyard...
...first people you'll hate are the walking Harvard decals, the people whose first $100 is spent on a Harvard banner, a Harvard mug, a red-and-white Harvard T-shirt, a white-and-red T-shirt, Harvard blotters, Harvard neckties, Harvard scarves, and red and white underwear that glows "Veritas" in the dark with the words to ten obscene Harvard band songs cross-stitched in the inseam. I once sublet an apartment from a recent Harvard alumnus who actually had the only complete set of Harvard cocktail glasses I've ever seen outside the Coop...
When Nixon ran against Pat Brown for Governor of California in 1962, Tuck popped up everywhere like a bad sprite. Nixon would no sooner throw him off the campaign train than he would sneak back on again. At a rally in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Tuck gave a banner to some children, who waved it aloft when Nixon appeared. "Let's have a picture," the candidate suggested. At that point, some of the Chinese happened to read the inscription, WHAT ABOUT THE HUGHES LOAN?-a reference to the $205,000 that Howard Hughes had lent Nixon's brother...
...mercies of David Bowie, who'd decided to Do Something with these boys. The single was "All the Young Dudes," maybe a homosexual anthem, and an album of same. It was an interesting example of expediency in action. Bowie's no longer producing Mott, and who knows just whose banner these guys are waving...