Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, December 8 G.E. FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Burl Ives as the voice of Sam the Snowman tells of that brightly beaked buck who saved the sleigh when snow threatened to cancel Christmas in the fourth annual repeat of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...
...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...
Life for a Death. The police pursue them relentlessly and, during one ambush, Buck's skull is split open by bullets. Blanche, wounded in one eye, turns into a shrill animal, incoherently rending the air with screams. Buck thrashes in agony, like a blind bull pierced with sword thrusts. Pain becomes palpable, and the actors became horribly real as the screen turns as bloody as a slaughterhouse floor...
...also admired E. G. Marshall--who gave the impression he'd gladly beat up anybody smaller than himself--and Austin Pendleton, his prostitute-loving son with buck teeth. Beah Richards (Addie) refused to play a Joe Good. Even around the two or three members of the household she loved, she maintained a peculiar aloofness. Negro maids couldn't be pals and Miss Richards' performance didn't lie about that...
...needed for urgent social programs. Besides, the money does not really go for defense as such; there has only been one major war and few major threats in the area in the past 50 years. It goes for big, fancy hardware that the armed forces feel they need to buck up their morale, enhance their prestige and encourage enlistments. Now Latin Americans are suddenly showing a new and, to the U.S., disturbing interest in not just having big equipment but in producing it as well...