Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope uou feel that way about 10 a.m., she said in response to the applause. And as floor managers for front-running McGovern mounted a determined effort to reclaim 151 California delegates, anti-McGovern forces dug in to buck that effort...
...Clifford Buck, chairman...
...returned the report to Flaschner, telling him that he had the power to discipline Troy for "certain possible irregularities." What power? asked Flaschner, passing the buck back. The SJC said that he could transfer.a judge to another court and order him to change his courtroom procedure. So Flaschner assigned Troy to five different courts during the past month and restricted him to civil cases...
...Buck and the Preacher is the best of this bad lot. Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the terrors of testy Indians and the sudden, brutal raids of freebooters hired to steer the wagons back to Louisiana, where the blacks are needed on the farms. Much to his chagrin, Buck is abetted by a smarmy and slightly balmy preacher (Harry Belafonte) who has a fine...
Flashing a set of scrupulously blackened teeth, Belafonte overacts outrageously but amusingly. Poitier mostly contents himself with dispensing his standard Captain Marvel characterization. Even so, there are a couple of scenes - especially one where Buck talks quietly about an impending defeat - in which Poitier reminds us that he is still a superb actor. For the past few years, that has been all too easy to forget...