Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PAUL SAND in FRIENDS and LOVERS (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) exemplifies another virtue of the Moore style, which is to get people out of bland Brady Bunch suburban housing and show them working at jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled...
Little Nells. Others take a more relaxed view. "The press has a fairly high betrayal threshold," says Eugene C. Patterson, editor and president of the St. Petersburg Times. "We're not a bunch of little Nells who were innocently seduced by the President. It's just the first time that Ford had a dustup with the press. There's bound to be more." Adds Emmet Dedmon, editorial director of the Field newspapers: "A honeymoon can last only until a President's first major decision...
...faceful of social outrage in the very first scene. A bunch of young kids sit on a stage, squirming in the summer heat as some starchy board of education types present them with scholastic awards. One old caricature, decked out in clothes more appropriate to a stroll on a widow's walk, extols an essay written by young Sonny Carson. She tells the audience all about how wonderful it is that this young Negro boy has raised himself up out of the slums, written about a few of his experiences, and set himself on the path of success...
Shame! Infamy! Horror! Sam Peckinpah has really tried to do it this time. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a gift to everyone who persists in misunderstanding such Peckinpah films as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs simply as paeans to brutality and orgies of tasteless violence. Alfredo Garcia could almost be dedicated to those benighted types. It is as if Peckinpah, sick of the accusations, decided to hurl them back and really make a film about violence...
Each of the top five teams has an explosive offense, but defense is the name of the game in football, and Dartmouth has the best of the bunch. With a strong offense, the Big Green should give Jake Crouthamel his third straight Ivy title...