Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie musical quite like Tommy, a weird, crazy, wonderfully excessive version of The Who's rock opera. Ken Russell is a film maker (Women in Love, The Devils) who glories in the kind of heightened visual absurdity that Tommy both invites and requires. Russell is also among the boldest of contemporary film makers. He fears nothing, including being bad, and he has often been. He is bad occasionally here, but it does not matter, finally. His unceasing visual imagination gives the movie an exhilarating boldness, a rush of real excitement. Tommy stirs a memory of a lyric from...
...naturalized U.S. citizen. With Bronx-born Husband-Manager Jeff Wald at her side, Reddy took the oath of allegiance in Los Angeles, then wept happily on the shoulder of Mayor Tom Bradley, who witnessed the ceremony. "This wonderful country is still the only place on earth where the boldest dreams can come true," exulted Reddy, who later celebrated by singing two concerts for women prisoners in a local jail...
Perhaps Solzhenitsyn's boldest and most dangerous assertion concerns a former Red Army general who is anathema to the Soviets. He was Andrei Vlasov, who commanded Russian units in the German army after 1942. Although Solzhenitsyn does not condone Vlasov's wartime defection, he praises him as "one of the most talented" of the Soviet generals who conducted the earlier defense of Moscow...
Thus in the week during which Agnew continued his ardent defense of the President, he also made his boldest declaration of independence. Though Watergate may threaten to sink him-innocent as he may be-with the rest of the Administration, he obviously is making plans to stay afloat...
...Show both before and after his retirement have gained him a devoted following. He has continued gathering sworn statements to support his personal case while criss-crossing the country to appear on TV and to be interviewed by journalists, keeping the heat on the Army. Soldier is his latest, boldest effort...