Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third, Clavell's all-precious story itself hearkens back to movie times previous even to those implied by the details of its production. The dirty Western has been with us for a long time, especially since The Wild Bunch made it artistically valid; Clavell's new film is an attempt to make a dirty swashbuckler. Clavell fails, but not totally without honor; he fails, in fact, because of his integrity. There was always a kind of folk realism to the Western. Audiences related to the films historically: this was their image of their past, a totally moral...
Danicl Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard after serving as President Nixon's advisor on urban affairs, yesterday dismissed the Black Panthers as "a bunch of crazies...
...greatest threat to the country, according to Stone, is the military, which has to find or create work to justify the money it craves. The military mind sees the war as a scenario where "we're Buck Rogers (Boom! Boom!) up in the sky and there are a bunch of lesser breeds-gooks-on the ground," he said...
...comedy-variety show has evolved. It is the local newscast. Or at least the subspecies of newscast that has adopted what the trade calls the "happy-talk" format. On such programs the anchor man, the weatherman and the sportsman have been supplanted by a happy-go-lucky bunch of banana men. They are not the old authority figures, but just-folks team players. Cronkite is out; Gemütlichkeit is in. What counts is not how the banana men relate the news, but how they relate to each other...
...call the Union-Leader's political views reactionary would be an understatement. During the 1968 New Hampshire Presidential primary, the newspaper referred to McCarthy canvassers as "a bunch of punks led by a couple of pinko punks." The day after McCarthy's unexpected success in the primary, the Union-Leader draped its front page in black, to signify mourning...