Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has deepened and widened the scope of Arlo Guthrie's hilarious talking blues record and transformed it into a melancholy epitaph for a whole way of life. Alternately funny and poignant, Alice's Restaurant may be the best film about young people ever made in this country...
...directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both an uncommonly fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the very best Hollywood directors...
STAIRCASE. There are two good reasons to see this film version of Charles Dyer's play, and they are Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. Portraying a bickering, desperate homosexual couple on the brink of old age, both men turn in their best screen performances in years...
...racing community ponders a classic question this Saturday afternoon. Can a Kentucky-bred three year old beat all the best older horses in the country going a mile and a quarter? The answer is that the older horses do not have a chance...
Since then he has beaten America's best handicap horse, Nodouble, in the Metropolitan Mile, America's best three year old. Majestie Prince, in the Belmont Stakes, and subsequently won the Jim Dandy Stakes by ten lengths and the Travers by six and a half lengths. There is no horse in America who can run with him at distances over a mile...