Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people gather on the beach and the leader try to make a speech. But Dread (Rastafari) again tell them it's too late; fire is burning, man, pull your own weight...
...personal adventures with the same grit and humor that he brings to the film's social canvas. The hero has too many stereotypical conflicts with his overly villainous parents and employers; there are too many scenes that try to convey his sensitivity by showing him brooding on the beach at Brighton. The film's final section, a long chain of cathartic crises, is contrived. Still, Phil Daniels, as Jimmy, is both appealingly quirky and a good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home...
...presidential campaign. After several hours over drinks, snacks and charcoal-broiled steaks, Kennedy and Kopechne, 28, left in his black Oldsmobile sedan. He claimed later that they intended to return to their separate hotels in Edgartown for the night. However, he headed in the opposite direction, toward a deserted beach. He drove down a bumpy dirt road and plunged off narrow, humpbacked Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy managed to extricate himself from the car, which lay upside down in about six feet of water; Kopechne...
...skeptical. But Kennedy has steadfastly stuck by his account, which he first related on TV a week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that he and Kopechne were intentionally heading toward the beach or that he spent the hours after the accident trying to find a way to escape blame for it. Kennedy acknowledges that he was "irresponsible" in not phoning police...
...third of his time. "The Chief Justice has two jobs," says Powell. "The rest of us have one." Says White: "I have a feeling Burger gets refreshed by his involvement in other duties, such as being chairman of the Judicial Conference. It's like us going to the beach...