Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time explain why that is so to worried parents, might make radicalization a lot more real to those people who smile and explain who they are basically "apolitical." A reader would have to believe that nothing is seriously wrong with America and its government (that a bunch of haircuts and baths wouldn't cure) to not be moved in profound ways...
Such unabashed populism pervades many of Ebert's columns. He has castigated horror films for sending seven-year-olds into nervous tears and deplored an "obscenely brutal" hunting film presented as "family" entertainment. But Ebert can also defend the balletic, bloody violence in The Wild Bunch on the grounds that, like a child's mock shootout, it is "no more real than dozens of gunfights I have already survived in the company of Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne." Nor is he prudish when it comes to a well-turned dash of décolletage. "If there...
...very safe. I have guards 24 hours a day and can call for an aircraft on a moment's notice. I did think of asking to go to Vientiane, but I would let down a bunch of people who think I am really helping to do their part in fighting a way of life they would never be happy under...
...such boys! They are all ninety percenters, A minus at the least." The police, most of them from lower-middle-class backgrounds where the status climb stopped with the civil service, had a slightly different view. To many of them, "such boys" were a puzzling, infuriating, foulmouthed, cop-baiting bunch of nigger-loving, Commie-Jew bastards...
Cable, like other Peckinpah heroes, is a man who knows he is fast becoming an anachronism. Pike Bishop and his band of middle-aged outlaws in The Wild Bunch realized that the days of living by their guns were "passing fast," and aging Frontier Marshal Steve Judd was greeted with derisive hoots as he rode down the main street of a booming little Western town at the opening of Ride the High Country. Cable is a frontiersman at heart, with no love for cities or their inhabitants. It shames him to admit he cannot spell his name...