Word: blusterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little Gaint [1933]. An tries to bluster his way into high society in this comedy with Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor...
During Sprague's opening salvo Boyle slouched in his chair in stony silence; all the bluster and bravado that characterized his nine-year reign at the U.M.W. had vanished. At 71, he is gaunt and pallid, suffering from anemia, heart disease and the effects of an attempted suicide seven months ago. He was flown in from a Missouri prison, where he is serving a three-year sentence for illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 presidential campaign...
That could be bluster before the fall, or it could represent Nixon's sincere belief in his innocence of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors." Depending on what may be in that briefcase, his survival strategy has some practical chance of success. His lawyers are advancing the narrowest possible grounds for impeachment, limited to indictable crimes of "a very serious nature committed in one's governmental capacity...
...lower-depths material in the '30s. Quaid plays dumb with canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book on this detail. Nicholson's bluster only partly masks his insecurity as he moves through the excess of options presented by the civilian world. It is attention to authentic detail by all of them that gives The Last Detail its modest but genuine distinction. Richard Schickel
...money and such benefits as food stamps, housing subsidies, Medicaid and other health services. Initially, at least, the programs were continued or expanded by the Nixon Administration. From 1960 to 1972, social welfare expenditures in the nation shot up nearly fourfold: from $52 billion to $193 billion. Beneath the bluster and the controversy, a significant redistribution of income had taken place. Steiner passes too quickly over some of the deficiencies of welfare, particularly its tendency to break up families by giving assistance only to fatherless homes. Yet it is hard to quarrel with Steiner's summation of the decade...