Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film to challenge the very ideal of heroism around which his work so far has been built. In Ride the High Country (1961), his main characters were two aging lawmen who could not, even when they tried, abandon their own code of honor. By the time of The Wild Bunch (1969), the main characters had turned into a ragged troop of bandits, but the code persisted. It was their adherence to a suicidal notion of dignity that made these outlaws heroes despite themselves...
...cannot wait to hit Miami" he said, "The scenario for San Jose was to see those guys looking like an army, ties, short hair; and then we came in, a bunch of individuals...
Children will get their own waiting area. "Kids need a different kind of waiting room, with a playpen and a bunch of toys," Wacker said...
Kennedy's staff of 27, variously described as "sharks," "incredibly ambitious," and the "best damn bunch on the Hill," is an object of some enmity and envy at the Capitol. Like his brothers, Ted has assembled young, intense and singlemindedly loyal subalterns. When Kennedy was a 30-year-old freshman Senator, elected chiefly by his brother's being in the White House, it was sneeringly said that Ted was kept afloat by his staff. Now he is sensitive to the charge; as a result, he takes only one or two aides with him on trips...
...continue. Penn, claiming the top two intercollegiate players and a strong returning squad, was billed as more than just an intercollegiate champion. The Quakers were to be a "superteam" and a new dynasty. But the Quakers were forced to let their champagne age in the locker room, for a bunch of untested Harvard sophomores and juniors humiliated the Quakers on their own home court...