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Word: bucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Professor Higgins, you frequently ask yourself, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" and go on to mumble that men are decent, noble, honest, thoroughly square, and ready to buck you up whenever you are glum, then A Woman is a Woman will traumatize the hell...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: A Woman is a Woman | 3/13/1965 | See Source »

Passing the Buck. Neither Smith nor Newman endorsed Cronkite's view on changing convention coverage, but on other scores both were as outspoken as he. "I think American TV documentaries are in a rut," observed Smith. "We've carried the concept of balance too far. We've got to the point where we're almost afraid to make a point." Cronkite demurred: "If the intention is to illuminate, you should illuminate both sides of the issue because the issue has two sides." Smith overruled him: "Truth is not necessarily halfway between any two points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Editing for Viewers | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...comment was self-critical. In re-examining the press's performance in Dallas after President Kennedy's assassination, Cronkite felt inclined to pass the buck. "We turned the cameras on the kind of confusion that the press has always created in similar circumstances," he said. "And for the first time, the public was able to see how all of the press operates. What we did was show the confusion, and therefore we got the blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Editing for Viewers | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...Guide is based on a small, sensitive novel by Indian Author R. K. Narayan. In this gross adaptation, filmed in India, Writer Pearl S. Buck and U.S. Director Tad Danielewski leap to their tasks like Yankee traders setting up a souvenir stand in front of the Taj Mahal. What they are peddling are ersatz views of modern India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bum Dharma | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Sold to the owner of a small plantation, she takes part in a slave revolt and is sold again to a dirt farmer, where she works in the fields all day and lies in the woods all night with a big white buck from a neighboring farm. One night her man attempts to escape from his cruel master and is torn to pieces by Chinese bloodhounds. In despair, the heroine flees by a sort of Underground Railway known as "The Mole's Way." To her astonishment, she discovers that a civil war is raging in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Feel What Wretches Feel | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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