Word: benightedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shame! Infamy! Horror! Sam Peckinpah has really tried to do it this time. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a gift to everyone who persists in misunderstanding such Peckinpah films as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs simply as paeans to brutality and orgies of tasteless violence. Alfredo...
GOLDMAN RANGES over and explores all these cultural "influences" with a superb critical imagination. But he examines them directly and concretely in terms that bespeak familiarity rather than scholarly distance. And he discovers them embedded in the day-to-day encounters and imaginative responses that made up Bruce's life...
Sexually, '50s youth talked a far better game than they played. There was a great deal of enthusiastic probing and, once in a while, a couple went "all the way." As befit that benighted era, the girl could thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged...
"Compared with this place," complained an African diplomat recently, "Russia is a roaring democracy." He was referring to the Central African Republic, a Texas-size country of some 2 million people, most of whom are illiterate. With no railroads, no direct access to the sea and only 120 miles of...
The court's dissenting minority freely conceded that the prior attempts to establish limits to pornography had failed miserably. "After 15 years of experimentation and debate," said William Brennan, "I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that none of the available formulas" are acceptable. He favored dropping all prohibitions...